ABC News' Trevor Ault speaks with comedian Ed Helms about season two of his award-winning podcast "Snafu," based on the burglary that exposed J. Edgar Hoover's secret illegal FBI program.

ABC News is the "10 Million Names" project's exclusive media partner, which helped ABC News' Pierre Thomas trace his West Virginia roots.

New research suggests ancestors of the “hobbits” were even smaller

William Calley Jr., the only U.S. soldier convicted in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, has died

A team of researchers challenged the belief that complex life forms first emerged on Earth 635 million years ago, saying life may have existed 1.5 billion years before.

A stegosaurus skeleton known as "Apex" was recently sold at auction for $44 million. It has sparked a debate over whether private buyers should be allowed to own fossils.

Italy’s ancient Roman Appian Way has been admitted to the UNESCO World Heritage List, becoming the country’s 60th entry on the list

The shipwreck was discovered in the Baltic Sea, about 20 nautical miles off the Swedish coast, by a team of Polish technical divers from the group Baltictech.

The shipwreck was discovered in the Baltic Sea, about 20 nautical miles off the Swedish coast, by a team of Polish technical divers from the group Baltictech.

Early humans may have played a significant role in the demise of one of the most iconic ancient species -- the woolly mammoth -- and others like it, scientists say.

The researchers used AI to track ecosystem changes through fossil records.

The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who had been unjustly court-martialed following the World War II-era Port Chicago explosion that killed hundreds.

A nearly-complete Stegosaurus skeleton, nicknamed "Apex", sold on Wednesday for record $44.6M at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

Israeli Holocaust museum Yad Vashem will debut a collection of Disney-themed artwork this Monday.

The Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity goes against all of the principles the Constitution's framers pushed for, historians and legal experts argued.

Attorneys for the two remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are calling on President Joe Biden to open an investigation into the massacre.

"GMA" explores Saint Anthony Main, its history and gets a lesson in swing dancing.

The two remaining Tulsa Race Massacre survivors, Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessie Benningfield Randle, 109, continue to pursue reparations after the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed their case.

Attorneys for the two remaining survivors of the massacre are calling to open an investigation after the Oklahoma Supreme Court decided to dismiss the survivors’ lawsuit that sought reparations.

The Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, which opened to the public Friday, is the first LGBTQ visitor center in the National Park Service.

Fossils from the skull of a Neanderthal child that likely had Down syndrome shed light into the communal caregiving that likely aided in the child's survival.

Being back at Rickwood Field brought back painful memories for MLB Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, who detailed the racism he experienced there.

Parvosuchus aurelioi dates back 237 million years and is the first small, predatory reptile of its kind to be found in Brazil.

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of ancient crocodile-like reptile that once roamed the lands and waters of Brazil.

Lokiceratops rangiformis lived about 78 million years ago, researchers said.

Researchers have discovered a new, giant-horned species of dinosaur named Lokiceratops rangiformis that they say is the "largest and more ornate" of its kind ever found.

The ornate room would have been used for ritual activities or storing sacred objects, according to the Archaeological Parks of Pompeii.

The room has been interpreted as a sacrarium, or a Roman sanctuary.

The Fisher family discovered the bones uring a hike in North Dakota’s Badlands.

They jumped out of the same planes that flew over Normandy 80 years ago.

A group of American lawmakers honored the sacrifices of World War II veterans who took part in D-Day with a parachute jump Friday morning.

American heroes who changed the course of history are returning to the beaches of Normandy and are met with gratitude for their sacrifice 80 years later.

ABC News’ David Muir talks with some of the brave American soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy.

The president attended a ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery.

President Biden will also attend a ceremony at the American Military Cemetery in Colleville-Sur-Mer and will meet with U.S. WWII vets who made the trip to France as well.

Plus, President Joe Biden and other world leaders gather in Normandy, France, to honor the incredible servicemen who landed on the beaches eight decades ago.

President Joe Biden plans to tour the hallowed ground near the beaches where more than 150,000 Allied troops began liberating Europe of Nazi control.

American Airlines flew 68 World War II veterans to France to remember the fateful day.

A group of 68 World War II veterans have returned to Normandy in France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Waverly B. Woodson was a medic on Omaha Beach during D-Day when his heroism saved untold lives. Now he's finally being honored for it.

June 6 marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces invaded Normandy, France.

The stegosaurus skeleton, known as Apex, is valued at $4-6 million.

Major League Baseball has merged Negro Leagues statistics into its record books. The granddaughter of one of the Negro Leagues' greats calls it "a dream come true."

John Lennon's "Help!" guitar, previously thought lost for 50 years, sold at auction for a record $2.9 million.

The Stone Age fossils were discovered by a winemaker in Austria while renovating his cellar.

Scientists have completed a complex reconstruction of a New Zealand bird that went extinct about 700 years ago.

A look at the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, through the eyes of the students then who fought against segregation.

Following his historic first trip to space, 90-year-old Ed Dwight sat among three Black NASA astronauts who thanked him for pathing their way to orbit.

Linsey Davis travels to Georgia to learn more about her family tree.

Authorities are looking for two people who they say committed “archeological theft” at a U.S national park in Moab, Utah.