FAIRMONT — Upstairs on the second floor of the Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center, the Braxton County Monster ...

A new digital reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman’s ribcage shows a number of “ambiguous” features that might have assisted him ...

Neanderthals who lived 130,000 years ago crafted their tools from the bones of one of their deadliest predators.

The discovery of the oldest known wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia has flung open the door into a new chapter of early hominid adaptation to the environment.

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

Scientists in Jalisco used UV lights at night to find scorpions with 8 eyes, stingers and discovered new species: Caxcan scorpion, study said and photos show.

Object Details Collector K. Sigrist Discipline Anthropology Region European Region Description This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science ...

Researchers have discovered Pterotiltus bioko, a new species of small, vibrant flightless grasshopper, in the rainforests of Equatorial Guinea’s Bioko Island.

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.