Human Evolution A 'landmark finding': Homo naledi buried their dead 250,000 years ago, according to newly updated research. ... "When you see such a kind of body with adipocere, ...

What exactly happens to human remains at sea? How long does it take for a body to decompose in water? Here is everything you need to know about how bodies decompose in water.

Style A museum’s historic human remains are now the center of an ethics clash. At the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, 19th-century body parts are reexamined under the modern lens of medical consent ...

With a little work experts found that it was human, ... The whitish substance wasn’t just a blob around it, but had grown from the body itself. It’s called adipocere, or corpse wax.