This latest find, a 29,000-year-old human skeleton, is perhaps the most significant yet. The young child, who lived during the last Ice Age, offers a unique glimpse into life in a long-vanished era.

JOHANNESBURG — Researchers in South Africa have unveiled what they call “by far the most complete skeleton of a human ancestor older than 1.5 million years ever found.” The University o… ...

Walking and running upright on two feet as humans do requires some specialized adaptations of the skeleton and muscles. Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body ...

The skeleton is of an adult male estimated to be between 25- and 35-years-old when he died. It was found at the archaeological site of Amara West in northern Sudan, on the Nile, 750 km downstream ...