This world-famous fossil is now on display in Abu Dhabi, allowing visitors to see up close one of the most important finds in ...

Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story ...

Archaeologists working on the high volcanoes of the Andes have discovered the first clear case of deliberate mummification of a child sacrificed in the capacocha ritual of the Incas. This was reported ...

A 3.4M-year-old set of foot bones from Ethiopia is forcing paleoanthropologists to redraw one of the most familiar diagrams ...

Understanding human anatomy structure is the key to drawing bodies that look balanced, natural, and realistic. In this ...

Osbjorn Pearson In 2012, fossils from a rare Homo habilis skeleton were uncovered along the shores of Lake Turkana in ...

Researchers led by the University of Vienna and Liège University Hospital Center have identified genetic variants associated ...

Every step you take depends on a structure most people rarely think about. The pelvis sits at the center of the body and ...

For some women, pregnancy is a time of profound loss. Not all pregnancies progress as expected. One serious complication is ectopic pregnancy, a condition in which a fertilized egg implants somewhere ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was present in the Americas at least 3,000 years earlier than previously ...

For the ArchaeoSpain research team, it was a day just like any other on their dig at the castle of Zorita de los Canes ...