A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Scientists have revealed the most complete skeleton yet of our 2 million-year-old ancestor Homo habilis.

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A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Queensland and Imperial College London, has proposed a new ...

When you hear the word "dinosaur," the first thing that might spring to mind is a hulking skeleton like Sue the T rex in ...

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