The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

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A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

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A human skull was found in some bushes next to Brooklyn’s famed Coney Island Boardwalk, police said Wednesday. A man walking on Riegelmann Boardwalk near W. 32nd St. spotted the skull and other ...

City officials are investigating the discovery of a human skull along the Coney Island boardwalk in Brooklyn this week. A passerby called 911 about human remains in the bushes next to the Riegelmann ...

It’s not every day that photos of a desecrated Indigenous burial ground are posted on social media. But that’s precisely what happened in January, when a concerned citizen in Kanab, Utah, stumbled ...

A human skull was removed from a burial site earlier this year, and state officials now want the public’s help finding the person responsible. The Utah State Trust Lands Administration, which owns the ...

Archaeologists discovered an unusually flat-topped skull at a pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican site. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of the people of Shimao—one of China's most significant late Neolithic ...