Deep beneath the turquoise waters of Mexico’s Caribbean coast, a shattered skull and scattered bone fragments have emerged from the darkness - remnants of a human who lived at least 8,000 years ago.

A skeleton beleived to date from 16-17th century and discovered during the Crossrail excavations at Liverpool Street is seen in the Dockland Museum's 'Tunnel' exhibition in London on February 8, 2017.

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than 2 million years ago in northern Kenya. The collection of fossil bones has ...