Hunchbacked, claw-fisted and sporting a creepy inner eyelid — this is “Mindy”, a disturbing if exaggerated vision of the effect that technology may have on the humans of the future.

But that’s not what stood out to Erik Trinkaus, an anthropologist at Washington University who studies the bones of ancient humans. He had a pivotal realization about the femurs, skulls, teeth and ...

An astonishing number of deformities found in the ancient bones of early humans may have been caused by rampant inbreeding. An analysis of remains from 66 ancient humans found 75 birth defects ...

A “weird” species of “walking” fish is helping shed light on how humans evolved to stand upright millions of years ago, according to scientists. The sea robin, a bony fish that lives at ...

Though they are rare, Koswara's case -- and other strange maladies we've taken a look at -- seem more common in Indonesia ... This caused Adilla's head to grow to three times the size of the average ...

THIS IS Graham – whose extra-ordinary deformities mean he ... He might appear a little strange, but he has been carefully sculpted to show how human beings would look if they had been designed ...