Archaeologists searching for the remains of Richard III under a city centre car park in Leicester say they have discovered a human skeleton showing evidence of ‘battle injuries’ and ‘curvature’ of the ...

Selam is a 3.3 million-year-old toddler and human ancestor whose skeleton provides clues on how we transitioned to walking upright. Zeray Alemseged/University of Chicago Fossils of an ancient child’s ...

It has long been known that the identity of each vertebra is due to the activation of a class of genes called "Hox." Now, researchers in Portugal show that besides determining the identity of the ...

Early hominins had 12 thoracic vertebrae like we do Image courtesy of Zeresenay Alemseged. The well preserved remains of a 3.3 million-year-old Australopithecus Afarensis have revealed that the spine ...