A skeleton found in the Lake Turkana Basin area of northern Kenya is the most complete set of remains ever found of Homo ...

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

BEAUFORT, N.C. — Keith Rittmaster walked out of his trailer, arms filled with shovels, buckets and brushes. It was the day of the big dig, and Rittmaster led a group of 14 volunteers through a “Secret ...

An international research team reports an unusually well-preserved Homo habilis skeleton that dates to just over 2 million ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The accepted dogma has been that bone-forming cells, derived from the body's connective tissue, are the only cells able to form the skeleton. However, new research shows that ...

In the past decade, a burst of research has debunked the unflattering reputation 19th-century scientists pinned on Neanderthals. We now know that they were creative, caring, and cognitively similar to ...

In mice, blood cell production occurs via strings and clusters of cells within the bone marrow that are responsible for producing specific blood cell types, according to a far-reaching study led by ...

For more than a year, Harvard researcher Ian Wallace scoured the country for skeletons. Thousands of them. No grave-digging was involved. Wallace unearthed the bones in academic collections that ...

Researchers have identified the biological process of mineralization that occurs in a young coral that shifts from the plankton (swimming) stage to the 'settled' stage in which it forms the skeleton ...

NEW YORK -- The 31,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult found in a cave in Indonesia that is missing its left foot and part of its left leg reveal the oldest known evidence of an amputation, ...