Bone fragment likely not Joan of Arc
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A rib bone and a piece of cloth supposedly recovered after Joan of Arc was burned at the stake are probably not hers, according to experts trying to unravel one of the mysteries surrounding the 15th century French heroine.
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Â· Remains are believed to be those of tsar's children Â· Discovery in clearing is linked to 1918 shootings
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A new round of DNA testing on bone fragments recovered from the World Trade Center site has identified the remains of a 34-year-old woman who was on the airplane that crashed into the north tower on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Tikrit, Iraq -- Iraqi officials say a body found near Tikrit is not that of a Japanese hostage. Initial reports that a bullet riddled Asian body had been found had upset Japan.
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The fossil gives us a missing link, not directly between humans and an apelike ancestor, but between great apes and lesser apes such as gibbons.
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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - Scientists in Canada and abroad are puzzled by photographs that appear to show a skeleton jutting out of an iceberg that recently drifted past Newfoundland's east coast.
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LONDON - The mutilated body of a woman found in Iraq two weeks ago is not that of kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan, says Britain&#39;s Foreign Office.
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Dental records have shown that a mutilated body found in Iraq is not that of kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan, but British officials say they still believe the British-Irish citizen is dead.
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Researchers studying DNA from 500-year-old bone slivers said Friday that preliminary data suggests Christopher Columbus might be buried in Spain, rather than in a rival tomb in the Dominican Republic &#151; but for now they cannot be sure.
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Researchers who gleaned DNA from 500-year-old bone slivers said Friday that preliminary data suggests Christopher Columbus might be buried in Spain, rather than a rival tomb in the Dominican Republic, but for now they can&#39;t be sure.
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French and Canadian researchers are speculating that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" may have been pregnant or had recently given birth
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The Vatican says it has found the long missing sarcophagus of the first century saint, but that shouldn't be taken as gospel - at least not yet
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Archeologists say they're 100 percent certain that the remains are those of a woman who was as mysterious in death as she was eccentric in life.
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The family of a girl found hanged do not believe she was copying a cousin who died in the same way.
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A fragment of a weapon used by commercial whalers in the 1800s was found in a massive bowhead whale caught off Alaska last month, suggesting it may be more than a century old, officials said Tuesday.
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Lucy, the world's most famous human ancestor, will go on public display for the first time in the United States this week amid criticism that her 3.2 million year old bones are too fragile to withstand an 11-city tour.
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British police investigating the  murder of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto concluded  she was killed by a head injury caused by the impact of a bomb  blast, not by a bullet, drawing skepticism from her close  aides.