Over a century ago, anthropologist Raymond Dart chipped an ancient skull out of some rock from an ancient quarry — and revealed the face of an ancient human relative.

Jeremy Pauley is fixture in the online oddities trade, known for binding books in human skin and preserving fetal remains. He ...

Ancient climate cooling reshaped carnivoran bodies, with fossils revealing how habitats drove species diversity worldwide.

This year’s top titles run the gamut and include an adaption of a Korean folk tale, a highly entertaining question-and-answer ...

The composer and longtime Safdie collaborator explains how experimentation and instinct shaped the film’s sweeping musical ...

The Forbidden Experiment” is about a totally unsocialized child who wandered into a French village in 1800 and the doctor who treated him ...

Best Acting in a Helmet, Best Nervous Breakdown, Craziest Charm—the film performances so good Wesley Morris had to invent his own categories.

"attachment_119339" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Assistant District Attorney Mikko Red Arrow (left) questions State Trooper David Reid ...

The human mind is turning out to be far stranger and more intricate than the tidy diagrams in old biology textbooks ever suggested. A wave of new research is revealing hidden layers in the brain’s ...

The district attorney's office said the man is a previous tenant. Authorities have named a person of interest after the discovery of human remains at a San Diego property prompted an ongoing ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of the genomes of 28 people who lived between 10,200 ...

This figure, commonly known as the Wound Man, appears in many early modern surgical texts, illustrating both the various ...