A man with a history of violent and sexual offences, including toward children, has been released from prison and is expected ...

As Mexican families prepare for Day of the Dead celebrations, altars are set up to welcome back loved ones under the belief that they return home for one night each Nov. 2.

Buried during the Stone Age, this woman once roamed the forests of northern Sweden. Now archaeologists have reconstructed her ...

The Unuk River region is and was an off-the-main-trail place. The Unuk River, Joonáx̱ in Tlingit, runs from glaciers in ...

An enormous, elongated polar bear skull emerged in 2014 from an eroding archaeological site southwest of Utqiaġvik in Alaska. Experts claim that it is quite different from most modern polar bear ...

Emily Mae Czachor is a reporter and news editor at CBSNews.com. She typically covers breaking news, extreme weather and issues involving social justice. Emily Mae previously wrote for outlets like the ...

A human skull dating back millennia was discovered on a riverbank in eastern Indiana, a local coroner announced Oct. 13. Fayette County Coroner Eddie Richardson said a skull found over the summer has ...

Archaeological evidence has finally confirmed what Roman historians have long documented - gladiators really did battle ferocious bears in ancient amphitheaters. A groundbreaking study of a 1,700-year ...

Nashville police matched a skull found in 2004 to a missing Tennessee State University woman who was last seen nearly 40 years ago. Alice Mae Sullivan, 20, was reported missing on Aug. 29, 1986 when ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Metro Nashville Police Department has linked the 2004 discovery of a skull in the city to a woman’s disappearance nearly 40 years ago. Police said that an unidentified ...

Vasi the sloth bear is using his new limb to dig, climb and play at Bannerghatta Bear Rescue Centre in India Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

For the first time, scientists have detailed how a deadly brain cancer has a unique path of progression, aggressively eating away at the skull itself – and how drugs to impede this end up making it ...