They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after ...

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

Mpumalanga Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison spokesperson, Moeti Mmusi said a sedan and a Nissan light delivery vehicle (LDV) collided after one of the vehicles allegedly lost ...

On Nov. 24, 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a scene captured on live television. In 1859, British naturalist Charles ...

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

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 ...

Each year, only about one out of every four hikers who set out to complete the Appalachian Trail reaches that goal. A thru-hike means traversing nearly 2,200 miles, across 14 states, in a single ...