Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

It's no coincidence that our bodies feel a little creakier as we age. The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age ...

Scientists and researchers around the globe are investigating a series of mysteries about what happens to our bones over time.

Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using ...

Humans Got Their Flexible and Sturdy Joints From Fishes, Evidence Found in 400 Million-Year-Old Jawed Fish Evolution has ...

More people have colon cancer spread to their bones than in years past. This may be because colon cancer treatments have improved, which allows people to live longer, giving the cancer more time ...

Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human evolution by more than a million years, a study said. Ancient humans ...

COMING UP. >> WELL, ROGERS, POLICE SAY THREE KIDS FOUND A MAN OR A HUMAN SKULL AND BONES IN THE WOODS ON WEDNESDAY. ACCORDING TO POLICE, THE REMAINS WERE FOUND BETWEEN SEVENTH STREET AND THE ...

habilis, although no human remains were found in association. Tools made on long bone diaphysis of very large mammals,.some 1.5 million years ago. [Photo by Ignacio de la Torre et al / CC BY-NC-ND ...

One of the smallest human relatives ever found has been unearthed in South Africa. Standing just 3 feet, 4.5 inches (1.03 meters) tall, the adult Paranthropus robustus, who died 2 million years ...

What's more, according to their analysis of modern human DNA, one of these isolated populations left a stronger legacy in our genes than the other. "The question of where we come from is one that has ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly ...