Fossils dredged from the Madura Strait in Indonesia reveal Homo erectus remains dating to around 140,000 years ago. The discovery shows that these early humans once inhabited the now-submerged Sunda ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic signature locked into the surrounding sediments. The hominin remains show a blend ...

Catherine O'Hara's cause of death has been confirmed after the award-winning actress died at 71 the morning of Jan. 30. Per the document, she'd died at a Santa Monica, California, hospital within ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Franklin County Coroner’s Office released its autopsy reports for Spencer and Monique Tepe on Tuesday. Spencer, 37, and his wife Monique, 39, were found shot to death in their ...

The death of an immigrant detainee at an El Paso facility has been ruled a homicide, according to the final autopsy report obtained Thursday by NBC News. Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, originally from Cuba ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...

Spencer Tepe suffered injuries to various parts of his body when he was killed, per a coroner's report Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal writer at PEOPLE's crime desk. Her work also appears in The New ...

Warning: The following story contains graphic descriptions from medical examiners who testified at Paul Caneiro’s trial. The gunman shot Keith Caneiro in the head or neck four times, once as he was ...

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After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance and told herself, “I can’t die this way,” and after emergency workers at ...

An autopsy report is proving more tragic details in the murders of an Ohio couple.Spencer and Monique Tepe were found shot to death in their home in Columbus on Dec. 30.Police quickly ruled out murder ...