On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, ...

In 1942, a P-40 made a forced landing at Godfrey's Wadlow Field ...

On a recent visit to Estonia, Swedish Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo reflected on his family's ties to Estonia, its scientific ...

What do each of these masterpieces have in common besides being three of the greatest anime movies ever created? None of them ...

A sculptor's rendering of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis is displayed as part of an exhibition that includes the 3.2 ...

Human remains found inside a Belgian cave tell a grisly story of selective cannibalism among our hominid cousins.

Jason Roberts is the author of ‘A Sense of the World’, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and named a best book of the ye ...

Tiny cameras threaded inside a Neandertal skull provide evidence that their big noses were not an adaptation to cold climates.

South African photographer Shem Compion has spent more than 20 years documenting the extreme geography and diverse inhabitants of the Great Rift Valley.

Nov. 11 (UPI) --A grapevine found in the mountains of Tibet was certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest wild living vine after being found to be 416 years old. The vine, located in Zuoba ...