A MYSTERY over the tragic burial of a mauled teen dating back 27,500 has finally been solved – and a giant bear is to blame. The doomed youngster – nicknamed ‘The Prince’ – was laid to ...

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

Scientists from several countries have identified a new dinosaur species called Foskeia pelendonum, a very small plant-eating ...

In the central Sahara, where sand now buries ancient lakes, scientists have pulled genetic material from 7,000-year-old ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus “A finding like this does give hope,” says William ...

A skeleton that washed ashore on a beach in Washington state in 2006 was positively identified as a former mayor who authorities presumed drowned on a fishing trip in Oregon. Clarence Edwin “Ed” Asher ...

YEADON, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- The Yeadon police chief says families across the country are reaching out in fear that their loved ones' remains may be among more than 100 skeletons authorities say ...

Police investigators were staking out the historic, 200-acre Mount Moriah Cemetery in southwest Philadelphia on Tuesday evening when their suspect finally emerged carrying a crowbar and a burlap bag.

The arrest of a Lancaster County man who had stolen skeletons in his Ephrata, Pennsylvania, house is what officials are calling a “horror movie come to life.” The man was arrested in Delaware County ...

EPHRATA, Pa. — A man was arrested Wednesday after months of break-ins at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Pennsylvania. Police say 34-year-old Jonathan Gerlach, of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, had more than 100 ...