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Skeletal remains of a middle-aged, unmarried man were found in a locked house in Nampally, India. The man, believed to have ...

Human remains were discovered inside the R.O. Cramer building after the Albia, Iowa structure went up in flames.

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MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what the hybrid children of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals would ...

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A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.