According to new research, Neanderthal DNA genes could be the reason that some people are more prone to a type of ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, according to a new study, causing a mismatch between brain shape and skull ...

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 ...

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 ...

Investigators are asking for the public's continued help in determining the cause of Lesiah Olivia Pickett's death.