Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have evolved testicles of all different sizes. In almost all these separate cases, ...

A seasoned deer hunter is shocked when his hound dog trots up with a human femur clenched between its teeth. A woman veers off her normal urban walking path and happens upon a human skull. New ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Unidentified human bones might be unsettling to some. But for SUNY Cortland student Caleigh Pfalzer, they’re an intriguing mystery that must be solved in order to return a donated collection of human ...

Five human skeletons with their hands and feet missing have been dug up in the ruins of a Nazi HQ that was home to war criminal Hermann Göring. The remains, which include those of a newborn, were ...

A well-preserved human skeleton that scientists recently excavated in Vietnam dates back about 12,000 years ago to the Ice Age and contains the oldest human mitochondrial DNA found in the region. It ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.

Authorities are investigating the discovery of human skeletal remains in the Mendocino National Forest, a sprawling wilderness covering more than 900,000 acres across Northern California. According to ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WBRC) - Birmingham Police are investigating after human skeletal remains were found in abandoned home. An accessor surveying the property at 1876 Alabama Avenue SW for a new owner ...

A Maryland man recently made a remarkable discovery in the Chesapeake Bay: an almost-whole human skeleton that appears to be at least a century old. NBC Washington reported George Oliver, who lives in ...

The image in question is genuine and features a gibbon, a primate known as a "lesser ape." Humans are also considered primates but belong to a subset of species known as the "greater apes." Living ...