In the past 10,000 years, our skeletons have also become shorter and smaller, though this trend has started to reverse in the last couple of centuries, as the average height of the human skeleton has, ...

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast ...

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One of the largest organ systems in the human body, the skeleton can weigh up to approximately 15% of an adult's total body weight, according to a 2019 review published in the International ...

The skeleton of a child, affectionately named "Pangpond" after a beloved Thai cartoon character, was discovered in a remote cave in Thailand and is estimated to be over 29,000 years old ...

Crime scene technician Kelcey Ward said it is not unusual to find human remains hundreds of years old but an entire skeleton is rare. “This is probably the most we’ve had of one body,” she said.