After six years with no arrest and no publicly named suspect, Missoula, Montana, police released video of missing woman Jermain Charlo to "48 Hours" hoping to generate leads.

In Southern California, a quiet but widespread public health risk has taken root in the region’s freshwater fishing spots.

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...

Once in a while, scientific research resembles detective work. Researchers head into the field with a hypothesis and high ...

Researchers studied an ancient granite pebble naturally shaped like a face, marked with a red ochre fingerprint. It happens ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

While surveying a Neanderthal rock shelter inside a cave in San Lázaro, Spain, archaeologists noticed an unusual stone among ...

As our ancestors developed more advanced tools and cultural practices, they also developed new ways of explaining concepts to others – culminating in the emergence of complex language ...

Archaeologists have been left reeling after uncovering a cave that pre-dates the Great Pyramid by 16,000 years ...

Paleolithic humans used whale bones as tools 20,000 years ago, the earliest evidence of marine tool-making discovered.