She knew that deep inside the cave lay thousands of bones. Small bones and large bones ... a three-story rock cliff shaped like a dragon’s back, with spikes sticking out along its spine.

The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone ...

Archaeologists also found numerous 3,500-year-old human remains linked to the roughly 125-year period when the cave was used as a tomb. Many of the bones belonged ... of the cave entrance in ...

Researchers discovered genetic material from cave bears and hyenas and 13 bones of early humans who died off approximately 45,000 years ago that revealed new information on the whereabouts of our ...