You might think that if a species died out tens of millions of years ago, its design would be too primitive to have any ...

Can you get organic compounds in a fossilized bone? There was a time we thought not, but a new study that used a novel ...

Unexpectedly, the study revealed that the fossilization environment had very little effect on the preservation of the ...

Chinaside marines of the Old Corps had some strange responsibilities, but the colonel of the embassy guard in Peking suspected that chaperoning a collection of old bones was asking too much.

Human bones that experts say are 1,500 years old were turned into officials in Germany in an IKEA shopping bag. Experts ...

GEMBLOUX, Belgium, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A Belgian research scientist is working with the federal police to create a scent that mimics the smell of dried human bones to help sniffer dogs find long ...