Mexican archaeologists recently uncovered a cache of ancient bones during a construction project. In a translated press release issued on Feb. 26, the National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

A new species of dinosaur has been identified more than a decade after a large number of ancient skeletons were found in Spain -- and researchers expect more species to be discovered. The discovery ...

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient skeleton found nearly 20 years ago in a river in Washington is related to Native Americans, says a DNA study that could help resolve a long-running dispute over its ancestry ...

NEW YORK – Thousands of years ago, a teenage girl toppled into a deep hole in a Mexican cave and died. Now, her skeleton and her DNA are bolstering the long-held theory that humans arrived in the ...

This story starts back in the 1970s in part of Belgium. Researchers were tooling around this second century Roman cemetery and found a body. Not too surprising for a cemetery, right? It had a pin made ...

Researchers baffled by what the famous Kennewick man ate, and didn't eat. — -- Researchers studying the bones of an ancient skeleton in Washington state have uncovered an interesting twist to the ...

One of the oldest and most complete skeletons found in North America will be given back to American Indian tribes in Washington state for reburial. President Barack Obama signed a bill Monday with a ...

When archaeologists first excavated a grave in Austria, they assumed the two skeletons—buried in an embrace atop a horse—were a pair of medieval lovers. Now, laboratory analysis has revealed that they ...

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