What began as student concern about an aging skeleton in an Austin Peay State University lab has evolved into a thoughtful response to medical education's complex history.

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than 2 million years ago in northern Kenya. The collection of fossil bones has ...

Back in 1929, archaeologists unearthed several human skeletons (seven adults and three children) while excavating Skuhl Cave just south of Haifa, Israel. Dating back 140,000 years to the end of the ...

The world's oldest evidence of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis and several chronic skin infections, has been found in a 5,500-year-old skeleton buried in a rock shelter in ...

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Ancient Korea had people from ‘sacrificial caste’ killed to please royalty, skeletons reveal - Findings offer first ...