Without any legal guardrails, determining the origin of body parts for sale is nearly impossible, said Jeremy Pauley, who is ...

A Lancaster County man was recently arrested for stealing remains, including mummified children. He doesn't represent ethical ...

The great tit is the picture-perfect garden bird. However, behind its "cute" reputation hides a dark reality: these birds eat ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

For a long time, the idea of giant animals has mostly been tied to dinosaurs on land. Oceans feel different, quieter, even ...

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through ...

A new species of shrew, Soriculus dexingensis, is discovered in Tibet, raising the number of known shrew species there to six ...

A 6,000-year-old skeleton that survived a lion attack has been found, providing exceptional evidence of prehistoric community ...

This one-ton turtle once ruled South America’s rivers — until a changing planet proved too much for even the largest ...

A uniquely preserved ichthyosaur from the Pliensbachian period helps resolve when a major evolutionary shift occurred among ...

An animal long believed to be possibly extinct has reappeared after nearly 30 years. Scientists in Thailand recently ...

The Museum of Death in New Orleans is unsettling enough during broad daylight when the sun is shining and the French Quarter ...