If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events ...

Her mother was Alaska Native of the Ahtna Athabascan people. She had been named for an aunt who died in a boarding school for ...

"This was one of our oldest unidentified cases. And I think it just goes to show you that no matter how long somebody persists in being unidentified, we won't give up trying to identify them," the ...

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

The rate that our heart or liver ages may differ from that of our immune or hormonal systems, and now it seems that a single ...

Marion McWhorter went missing in Oregon in 1974. Now, remains found two years later have been identified as her, through DNA ...

Remains found in 1976 have been identified as Marion McWhorter, who went missing two years before when she turned 21 years old, Oregon State Police said.

New York City have not had any of their remains identified by authorities. The medical examiner's office is using new ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

Nearly 50 years after authorities located human remains in a field west of Marianna, the Arkansas State Police's Cold Case Unit determined they belong to a man last seen in Memphis a few years before ...