Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the mountains of Cullowhee, North Carolina, off a gravel road near a university and behind an apartment complex, dozens of ...

As of now, there is one forensics class on campus about human osteology, and with the loss of the archaeology department’s field program, there is little opportunity left for interactive experiences, ...

Halloween calls to mind graveyards and Dr. Frankenstein bringing dead bodies to life, so, naturally, Short Wave wanted to know what happens when you donate your body to real scientists. To find out, ...

CULLOWHEE – In a classroom at Western Carolina University, forensic anthropologist Dr. Cheryl Johnston strolled from desk to desk checking on students' progress. Hundreds of human bone fragments, ...

The remains of a person missing from Durham for two years were recently found after the city’s police received the help of forensics students from Western Carolina University. In December, six ...

Bones discovered on a Pacific Island in the 1940s, which are most probably those of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, went unidentified for decades because researchers thought they were of a man, an ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) announced it has opened the ASPCA Veterinary Forensic Science Center, the first-ever forensic laboratory ...