Deep beneath the turquoise waters of Mexico’s Caribbean coast, a shattered skull and scattered bone fragments have emerged from the darkness — remnants of a human who lived at least 8,000 years ago.

The peopling of South America has long been debated, with various routes proposed for how they spread across the subcontinent ...

A new study has revealed that fossils long believed to be Japan’s oldest human remains are actually from a brown bear. The Ushikawa bones, discovered in the 1950s and dated to over 20,000 years ago, ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health has been cited for documenting what its author described as the oldest known human remains on Antarctic soil. The ...