A North Carolina man faces four murder charges after confessing to killing his children and putting them in a trunk.

A man who told authorities he had killed his children and that his children's bodies were in the trunk of a vehicle at his home has been charged with four counts of murder.

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

An archaeologist made a chance finding while investigating the Knocknarea cave in Ireland and caught a glimpse of a sliver of bone, leading to the discovery of numerous bones belonging to a Stone Age ...

A human bone found along the Whitewater River in Fayette County has been dated to about 2,245 B.C. Fayette County Coroner Eddie Richardson said a preliminary analysis on a portion of a human skull ...

The discovery of what appeared to be a human femur and pelvic bone might have unnerved the construction workers who unearthed them near Lake Worth Beach last week, but for Dr. Heather Walsh-Haney and ...