A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a flooded Mexican cave, with researchers believing it was likely placed there as part of a ritual. Cave-diving archaeologist Octavio del Río discovered ...

The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the ...

LEONARDO DA VINCI’S Vitruvian Man is among history’s most famous works of art, as recognizable as the Mona Lisa. It also has held a secret that stumped artists and mathematicians for centuries—until a ...

When someone sits in hot air, sweat forms and evaporates, carrying heat away from the skin. This evaporation acts like a ...

The Y chromosome is among the smallest in the human body and carries the fewest genes. Researchers are paying renewed attention to its role in cancer—specifically, what happens when it vanishes.

Illegal migration remains near historical lows along the U.S.-Mexico border. But a group of volunteers continues finding ...

An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

WRIGHT COUNTY, Mo. (Edited News Release/KY3) -Wright County deputies said human remains were found near Macomb, Mo. Monday. According to the Wright County Sheriff’s Office, deputies received a report ...