Authorities are investigating the discovery of a skull and other human remains found along a remote dirt road in the Mojave Desert this week, officials confirmed. The remains were discovered around ...

At Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, fossilized human remains and stone tools dated to about 315,000 years ago challenged the long-held idea that Homo sapiens originated only in East Africa. The site, first ...

Thousands of years ago in a cave on Hispaniola, an unusual chain of events left behind a rare scientific treasure: bees nesting inside fossilized bones. After giant barn owls repeatedly brought prey ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

Scientists studying ancient human remains in Ethiopia may have uncovered the earliest known evidence of human cremation, ...