New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or sub-Saharan Africa. Advances in DNA sequencing are helping researchers resolve a ...

Horror fans are convinced they've worked out why Jack O'Connell's villain Sir Jimmy Crystal has set rules when it comes to ...

“It looks like the fish has a large chunk of its skull missing—as though somebody took a little ice cream scoop and took a ...

A mummified human head kept in a Swiss museum displayed incorrect details about who the person was and where he came from.

A partial skeleton weighing just 70 pounds is bridging a critical gap in the fossil record and redefining the timeline of ...

What drives someone to target graves for their human remains? In the case of Jonathan Gerlach, 34, who’s accused of stealing ...

Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, head first, down an ice-coated mountainside chute on a thin sled with no safety equipment other than a ...