“We were thinking it’d be nice if we could make a film that was kind of a curiosity, but if you saw it years from now you wouldn’t know anything about where it came from.” This quote from a 2009 ...

LAKE MUNGO, Australia (AP) – The oldest human remains found in Australian were on Friday returned to the Outback desert that he roamed some 42,000 years ago in a ceremony celebrated by traditional ...

Australia’s oldest human remains were relinquished by scientists in Canberra and on Wednesday, November 15, began a journey to where they were discovered in Lake Mungo, New South Wales. “Mungo Man,” ...

SYDNEY, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A study of early life in Australia has re-dated the age of the continent's oldest human remains -- Mungo Man and Mungo Lady -- at 40,000 years, researchers said Tuesday. It ...

Australia’s oldest human remains have been returned to their ancestral home. "Mungo Man," who died more than 40,000 years ago, has been determined as the first known Australian, more evidence (if you ...

The return of the remains was welcomed with a traditional ceremony For decades, Australia's oldest human remains - an Aboriginal man who died about 42,000 years ago - have been stored at a university ...