Young stars often get hyped up at the Winter Olympics. Teen skiers and early-20s snowboarders usually shape the games. Yet ...

In 2008, genetic research suggested that Ötzi’s maternal lineage was extinct. His mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) carried a rare signature never observed in any living person, leading researchers to ...

I reflect on the life and legacy of one of the oldest people ever recorded in history.

A resident of a Florida aquarium confirmed to be at least 71 years old has been certified as the oldest manatee ever by ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with the 54-year-old curler, Rich Ruohonen, the oldest American Winter Olympian to ever compete ...

The Department of Justice on Saturday sent Congress a list of “politically exposed persons” in the millions of files released related to its probes into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Where are Europe's oldest people living? What geography tells us about a fragmenting continent by Florian Bonnet, Carlo Giovanni Camarda, France Meslé, Josselin Thuilliez, The Conversation edited by ...

NEW YORK (AP) — From tech titans to Wall Street power brokers and foreign dignitaries, a who's who of powerful men make appearances in the huge trove of documents released by the Justice Department in ...

A faded outline of a human hand found on a cave wall in Indonesia may officially be the oldest known rock art in the world, according to archaeologists who say it was created at least 67,800 years ago ...

In the mid-1990s, archaeologists unearthed a piece of elephant bone from a site in southern England. It didn’t look like much at the time, so they set it aside in the collection of the Natural History ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PARK CITY, Utah — It started with a birthday invitation. In the summer of 2015, filmmaker Sam Green, who’d just finished a ...