Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we ...

Ancient DNA from prehistoric bones reveals a 37,000-year timeline of human infections, tracing our long struggle with disease.

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

A groundbreaking study of the Skhūl I skull challenges our understanding of early human evolution.

Several forensic experts were used in trying to identify her. In August 2002, bones recovered during the search of Pickton's ...

More than 30 years after the death of 85-year-old Veta Hardebeck in her rural Gaston home, the Washington County District Attorney’s Office has reopened the case.

William Blount, who attacked a 57-year-old Nina Rothschild with a hammer at the Queens Plaza subway station in N.Y.C., was ...

More than 40 years after Teresa Peroni vanished from a party in Oregon, the man she was seeing was arrested in connection with her death ...

A new study suggests that some modern brain malformations may be linked to Neanderthal ancestry. Researchers have found that ...

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

William Richards maintained his innocence and appealed his criminal conviction several times until it was finally reversed by ...