A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

How on earth did the Wet Bandits survive the first film at all, let alone escape without lasting injuries? Ten-year-old Kevin ...

The key to Matthew Wolfe’s conviction was the testimony of Dr. Debra Esernio-Jenssen. In a stunning reversal, however, the ...

Side view of NMNH's newly acquired Pachycephalosaurus skull, which is a rare, nearly complete specimen James D. Tiller and Phillip R. Lee / Smithsonian Institution Millions of years ago, an ...

Left lateral view of catalog number USNM PAL 803273, a Pachycephalosaurus skull, from the Late Cretaceous Period, Maastrichtian stage (approximately 68 to 66 million years ago), Hell Creek Formation, ...

The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.

City officials are investigating the discovery of a human skull along the Coney Island boardwalk in Brooklyn this week. A passerby called 911 about human remains in the bushes next to the Riegelmann ...

A human skull was removed from a burial site earlier this year, and state officials now want the public’s help finding the person responsible. The Utah State Trust Lands Administration, which owns the ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

Mr. Giles is a novelist and the former executive Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair. Anyone who’s published a book or tried to has had even indispensable friends and family tell them why they’re not ...