Because pigs are remarkably similar to humans, knowing the signs of their decomposition can help identify hidden burials.

The history of physicians dissecting cadavers to study human anatomy dates back to the third century B.C., but later, the practice became a cultural taboo for the Romans as well as the medieval ...

Study of rotting human cadavers hints that a puzzling chemical marker in Neanderthal remains could be from eating the larvae.

The DNA from three cadavers exhumed in a Batangas cemetery does not match samples from the families of 23 missing sabungeros ...

A funeral parlor in Santa Cruz, Manila was shut down on Wednesday after authorities found piles of decomposing cadavers ...

Can You Build a Business Around Selling Ultra-Detailed Fake Cadavers for $70,000? This Florida Company Did SynDaver finally built a better dead body. By Emily Canal, Staff writer, Inc.com @ emilycanal ...

SINGAPORE - Third- and fourth-year students at Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) medical school will get to dissect ...

In the second half of the 20th century, however, the medical profession started to clean up its act. The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act of 1968 gave every American the right to donate his or her body ...

On a “body farm,” researchers are exploring whether the nutrients from human cadavers can change the look of plants, which authorities might use to locate missing persons.

Virtual cadavers: Biology class goes 3-D The high school is the first in Wisconsin to have a virtual 3-D dissection device featuring human and animal cadavers.

After inspectors found 10 corpses stacked in a nook in the Body and Light Funeral Services in Sta. Cruz, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno ordered the closure of the mortuary for unsanitary practices.