A hiker found a human skull in a wooded area of Cherokee County, North Carolina, according to the sheriff's office.

“Following an extensive forensic investigation, the (N.C. State Bureau of Investigation) has positively identified the ...

Additional human remains were located on Feb. 4 with the assistance of anthropology students from Western Carolina University ...

Western Carolina University students helped in the recovery of some of the human material vital to a Cherokee County ...

When the first Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in 1519, they claimed to have witnessed a ...

A nearly complete skull fossil found in Egypt has revealed a new species of Hyaenodonta, an apex carnivore that mysteriously went extinct about 25 million years ago.

CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, has developed an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tool for assisting in the ...

“This skull is important to us ... but also delicate aspects of cranial anatomy,” said Dr. Nancy Stevens, an anthropology professor and director of the Museum of Natural History at the ...

The skull was discovered Jan. 23 as a hiker walked ... Two searches were conducted in the area, and on Feb. 4, a group of anthropology students from Western Carolina University helped deputies ...