The chairman of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee said the panel will move forward with contempt of Congress ...

The Trump administration is using a years-old scandal first prosecuted under the Biden administration to justify its ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

​​Rivers may seem as old as the hills, but they have life cycles just like other natural features do. Many grow and make ...

Kellenberger, who spent 41 years teaching middle school in Carson City, Mich., said she’d dreamed of hiking the 14-state ...

A team of scholars identified the oldest intentional human cremation, dramatically expanding what archaeologists know about early hunter-gatherer practices.

David Oshins, who lost his wife last year, expected one granddaughter over for his birthday dinner. More followed.

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in Minneapolis with her partner just blocks from where she was shot. The woman shot and killed ...

The 9,500-year-old remains of a woman in Malawi have set a new record, marking Africa's oldest evidence of intentional ...

A modern analysis of 7-million-year-old remains suggest this mysterious ancient primate is the oldest human ancestor ever found.

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...