Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia, forever transforming our understanding of human evolution. Uncovered by a young paleoanthropologist, Donald ...

The fossil of an ancient animal teaches a sad lesson: Cancer has been around for a very, very long time. By Asher Elbein Certainly the patient never knew where the hip pain came from, or why its left ...

A student once asked the anthropologist Margaret Mead what she thought was the first evidence of civilization. Rather than ...

When anthropologists meet in France at the end of January, one of the most provocative fossils in the study of human evolution will not feature on the agenda. The approximately 7-million-year-old ...

A skeleton can hold many clues about its deceased flesh-and-blood owner, and now research indicates that bones can show whether or not that person was overweight. The key to ascertaining this is the ...

Archaeologists think that a debilitating, "rope-like" lump of bone protruding from a 14th to 19th century woman's thigh sprouted as a result of extreme trauma. When you purchase through links on our ...

Forensic researchers have found a more accurate way to assess an individual's age at death, based on the bone mineral density of the femur. The technique could be used to help identify human remains.

A 34-year-old Delhi woman regained her ability to walk after undergoing advanced orthopaedic surgery to reconstruct a missing ...