Relatives weep as they attend the burial ceremony of Neema Minaro, a 66 year old woman who died of the Ebola virus, in Bunia, ...

The world lost an icon, but her family lost their beloved matriarch. It’s hard to believe it’s been over a week since the ...

A look at a pied ball python clutch from incubation to first shed, with each baby showing unique pattern and color changes.

Pythons are hefty creatures that constrict their prey to make their meals. However, the reticulated python is far from ordinary, holding the title of the world's longest snake.

More and more people are choosing what’s being called a green or natural burial. In natural burials, there are no chemicals or embalming, and no concrete vaults or expensive caskets. Family and ...

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Zev Stub is the Times of Israel's Diaspora Affairs correspondent. Israel’s policies regarding the burial of the dead are among the most generous in the world, with every citizen guaranteed a permanent ...

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WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — The Grand River Burial Mounds have been around for roughly 2,000 years and stand as one of the most well-preserved sites of Hopewell Indian culture. For the most part, the ...

Coffin or urn? If you die in Germany, you'll probably end up in a box in a public cemetery. Like it or not. The nation has some of the strictest funeral laws in western Europe. Now there's a shake-up ...

Anthropologist Lee Berger and his team at the University of the Witwatersrand, working within the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, have published their most extensive evidence yet of ...