Clues to Black Plagueâs Fury in 650-Year-Old Skeletons
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New findings suggest that the plague selectively took the already ill, while many of the otherwise healthy survived the infection.
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Prehistoric humans were infected with a bug that causes stomach ulcers, a study has shown.
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Scientists plan to exhume within the next five months the body of a British diplomat who died in 1919 of the Spanish flu, in a move they hope will provide vital clues on how to fight any future pandemic.
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a human ancestor more than one million years old.
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An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago.
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Starvation and cannibalism were part of life for a population of Neanderthals living 43,000 years ago.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- His grandmother's bones went missing two years ago, not long after the rains stopped. "The grave is all rubber trees" now, said Sev Thveal, 23. Part of the Jarai minority, he can barely read and write and has worked the land so long that his toenails are a permanent shade of...
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A study of an ancient human pest -- head lice -- suggests that the ancestors of today's American Indians may have met and fought with pre-humans long extinct elsewhere, scientists said on Tuesday.
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A study of an ancient human pest -- head lice -- suggests that the ancestors of today&#39;s American Indians may have met and fought with
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There&#39;s a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists who try to understand the long and puzzling history of human evolution by studying fossil evidence from millions of years ago.
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Dr. C. Erec Stebbins talks about using a nearly 100-year-old investigative tool to identify the bacterial proteins that cause disease.
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The 1.77-million-year-old remains of three adults and a teenager unearthed in the Caucasus point to a far greater variation in early humans than once suspected, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Researchers are scrambling to find the cause of an ailment that is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country.
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ROCKTAIL BAY, South Africa  - The signs of the  scuffle were fresh but it is a struggle that has gone on for  tens of millions of years.
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Archaeologists have discovered the mummified remains of a doctor they believe lived more than 4,000 years ago and was buried along with metal surgical tools.
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Elated scientists on Wednesday showed off a 130-million-year-old fossil that casts mammals in a new light by proving that in prehistoric times they fed on young dinosaurs.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.