A Jurassic-age dinosaur suffered from eight devastating maladies during its lifetime that likely caused the paleo-beast an enormous amount of pain and possibly made it difficult to hunt, a new study ...

Archaeologists on Monday announced the discovery of a fossilized human finger bone in the desert of Saudi Arabia that they said was 85,000 years old. Archaeologists on Monday announced the discovery ...

The Nefud Desert in northern Saudi Arabia. Credit: Hermes Images/AGF/UIG via Getty Images Even for a desert, the Nefud is nearly bone-dry. Only about an inch of water falls onto the red, sandy soil in ...

It’s only 3 centimeters long and less than 1 centimeter wide, but it has the potential to rewrite the history of our ancestors’ migration out of Africa. The object in question is a fossilized piece of ...

The bones in your fingers are called phalanges. Each finger has three phalanges, except the thumb, which has two phalanges. A broken, or fractured, finger occurs when one or more of these bones breaks ...

Several views of a fossilized finger bone found Al Wusta site, Saudi Arabia. Ian Cartwright For years, archaeologist Huw Groucutt and his team had driven one particular stretch of desert on their way ...

A small finger bone found in the Saudi Arabian desert may rewrite a key part of the human story: how our species emerged from Africa and spread around the world The bone is one of the oldest pieces of ...