A blast from the past! Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever discovered in ...

Bones from the hominin, dubbed “Pink” after the rock band Pink Floyd, significantly predate those of a species previously found at the site.

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The BBC's Will Grant visits the site believed to have been used by drug cartels to dispose of victims' remains.

When this happens, the pieces of bone that develop are called extraskeletal bone growth or fragments. These bone fragments can grow up to three times as fast as normal bone, causing stiffness and ...

Though the newly described bone fragments do not totally resolve aspects of our evolutionary origins—if anything, they further complicate the narrative—they contribute to an increasingly ...

What they found embarrassed state authorities and shook Mexico: dozens of shoes, heaps of clothing and what appeared to be human bone fragments. Distraught families from across the country have ...

The findings come after paleolithic archeologists led by Ignacio de la Torre at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) analyzed bone fragments from the Olduvai Gorge site in northern Tanzania.

Sima del Elefante Back in 2022, during our annual field season, our team unearthed a series of bone fragments from a cave called Sima del Elefante (Pit of the Elephant). The fragments are from the ...

Among all the fossils and bone fragments, the authors identified 27 specimens that were clearly bone tools, evidenced by signs of intentional flake removal, shaping, and modification of bone edges ...