2 more endangered ferrets cloned from animal frozen in the 1980s: "Science takes time"

Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endange...

Hurricane Katrina victim identified nearly 2 decades after storm pounded Gulf Coast

Almost two decades after a woman's death during Hurricane Katrina, modern forensic tests finally all...

Murders of 2 girls and 2 young women in Canada in the 1970s linked to American serial rapist

Canadian police announced Friday they have linked the deaths of two 14-year-old girls and two young ...

Archaeologists search English crash site of World War II bomber for remains of lost American pilot

In recent months, the U.S. Department of Defense has accounted for dozens of missing airmen killed i...

More remains identified at suspected serial killer's Indiana estate, now 13 presumed victims

A renewed effort to identify thousands of bones found at the Indiana estate of a long-deceased busin...

DNA from fork leads to arrest of Florida man 15 years after uncle killed in NYC

A man in Florida has been indicted on a second-degree murder charge in the 2009 killing of his uncle...

Over 40 years after children found a dead baby near a road, Vermont police find infant's parents and close the case

More than 40 years after some Vermont children waiting for a school bus discovered a dead baby off t...

Tiny fern breaks world record for largest genome on Earth — with DNA stretching taller than the Statue of Liberty

A small, seemingly unremarkable fern that only grows on a remote Pacific island was on Friday crowne...

In 1983, children in California found a victim's skull with a distinctive gold tooth. She has finally been identified.

A victim whose skull was found in a culvert by children in a Southern California city in 1983 has be...

U.S. announces 7 POWs who died in World War II, 9 soldiers killed in Korea have been accounted for

Sixteen soldiers who died in World War II and the Korean War have been accounted for, the Defense PO...

After D.C. man arrested in woman's cold case murder, victim's daughter reveals suspect is her ex-boyfriend: "Unreal"

A man has been arrested 23 years after a woman was found dead in her suburban D.C. home, authorities...

Woman ID'd 21 years after body, jewelry found by Florida landscapers; search underway for killer

Police in Florida are searching for leads in a decades-old cold case after forensic genetic genealog...

Remains of U.S. airman whose bomber was shot down in World War II identified 81 years later

A Connecticut man who was killed on a bombing mission in Burma during World War II has been accounte...

First Tulsa Race Massacre victim from mass graves identified as World War I veteran after letter from 1936 found

A World War I veteran is the first person identified from graves filled with more than a hundred vic...

Newly found DNA could shed light on "Monster of Florence" serial killer case decades after mysterious murders of couples

Newly discovered DNA could shed light on one of Italy's most famous cold cases, finally revealing th...

In 1944, a U.S. WWII pilot crashed in England during a secret mission. A search for his remains has revealed new clues.

Metal detectors beeped across a quiet, five-acre plot of forest and field on England's eastern Suffo...