Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...

BEIJING, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese archaeologists have investigated the lives of nobles from the Qin state during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, providing new insights into ancient Chinese social ...

Braces, rubber bands, even jaw surgery—millions endure them in pursuit of a straighter smile. But were misaligned smiles ...

In Kenya’s arid Turkana Basin, a team of scientists has recovered something unexpected from the jaws of long-dead giants.

Many extraordinary things have been found in the Central American jungle, but when a king from a 1,600-year-old civilization ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

The Sebeiba festival, a 3,000-year-old tradition of the Tuareg people, takes center stage in Djanet, an Algerian oasis town ...

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...