Sand dredging off the coast of Java has recovered more than 6,000 bones, including two fragments of skulls of the early humans Homo erectus. H. erectus and the other animals found there lived on ...

A massive fin whale stranded on Cape Cod on May 8 – the largest whale stranding in IFAW history. Here's what scientists did with her remains.

Clues are emerging about the ghostly clan that settled eastern Asia and left a genetic legacy in people today.

"Custom of the sea" was a historically accepted practice of cannibalism as a means of survival during shipwrecks and sea ...

British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror." None returned ...

The remains of Pattie Wu-Murad of Connecticut have been identified, more than two years after she first went missing in 2023 ...

U.S. Army Pvt. Roman Cherubini was serving with the 475th Infantry Regiment in the China-India-Burma Theater when he was ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...