A rabbi reacted to the identification of his brother's remains, which were discovered in a field and then stored in the Lancaster County Forensic Center when investigators hit a roadblock.

Sterling High School students are using a tool of technology to peel back the layers of the human body for an up close and intimate view of human anatomy. An anatomage table is an interactive virtual ...

There are many lengths of pearls but only one conveys purity mixed with eros—the single-strand choker of the ingénue, worn ...

That was the case recently when a remarkable discovery from the Copper Age was made during an otherwise routine dig for a new ...

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...

The Italian Renaissance artist created groundbreaking depictions of humans at a time when the inner workings of the body ...

Skeletal remains of a toddler discovered wrapped in newspaper and stuffed inside a steel can in Hawaii finally reached a breakthrough more than 60 years after the grim death.

These were the horrific scenes that met the Soviet 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front as they opened the gates of ...

Humans don't have hollow bones like birds do, so how big would our wings have to be to lift us off the ground?

Back then, many paleoanthropologists thought that present-day human populations evolved regionally from archaic ... All of the dozen or so Denisovan skeletal specimens discovered to date are fragments ...

Human bones that experts say are 1,500 years old were turned into officials in Germany in an IKEA shopping bag. Experts believe the bones were excavated by a volunteer on an archaeological dig in 1965 ...