The oldest human fossils on Japan's mainland were found in a limestone quarry near Hamakita, 40 km east of Ushikawa.

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Ellen Green, a postgraduate researcher with the University of Reading, analyzed “Quarry 1” from the Nescot site and found “it ...

A new study by archaeologist Xingtao Wei and his colleagues, published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, ...

Now researchers can identify subtler changes over just hundreds of years, providing clues as to how people migrated and ...

A bio-archaeologist with the University of Reading, in the U.K., has found an ancient dog's red-painted penis bone along with ...

The frigid temperatures in Denisova Cave had preserved ancient DNA in Neanderthal fossils discovered there. But this bone, more than 60,000 years old, was different. When Pääbo and his team ...

Norfolk police say the bones have been examined by an archaeologist and are believed to be ancient human bones. Norfolk police say an archaeologist examined the bones and believe them to be ...

In the 1950s, when they were discovered, the Ushikawa fossils were identified as parts of a human humerus (upper arm bone) and femur (leg bone), believed to be over 20,000 years old ...

SFU testing helps the BC Coroners Service determine if unidentified skeletal remains are ancient or modern based on diet.

Rare fossils challenge assumptions about how the big cats thrived in a challenging environment.