A 57-year-old Springfield man has been arrested on first-degree murder charges after being accused of killing a woman whose ...

Cut marks on a child's cervical vertebra found at Atapuerca in Spain suggests Homo antecessor was indiscriminate about ...

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

Archaeologists in Spain uncover 850,000-year-old child remains in Gran Dolina cave, the earliest case of human cannibalism in ...

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest-known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years.

At Tinshemet Cave, researchers found skeletons laid with care. These early humans, believed to be over 100,000 years old, were arranged in burial pits.

The victim had been reported missing about 11 months before his remains were found in a wooded area in Jessamine County.

A family is mourning the loss of a 3-year-old boy who died after being left in a hot car on Tuesday. The child was under the ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back about two million ...

Divers uncovered a 3,000-year-old clay figurine in Italy's Lake Bolsena, revealing human fingerprints and shedding light on ...

Police said seven people have been arrested so far, but more are expected in connection to an alleged child sex trafficking ...