Editor's Note: WBIR is reporting this week on the evolution of the University of Tennessee's Body Farm. This is the first installment. It all started because Dr. Bill Bass needed a place to keep the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1994, when Patricia Cornwell published her best-selling mystery novel "The Body Farm," few people outside Tennessee had ever ...

About an hour north of Tampa, Florida is a plain field, surrounded by a fence. It may look like ordinary land, but the fenced-in area is a burial lot for bodies donated in the name of science. The ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee announced the Body Farm is getting more than half a million dollars in federal grants to fund two new research projects aimed at helping forensic ...

News of Canada’s first body farm, set to open this spring in Becancour, Que., has inspired a flood of volunteers to donate their eventual remains. The response has been so overwhelming that Shari ...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Iowa's rich topsoil and climate have nourished some of the nation's most plentiful corn and soybean crops. Tyler O'Brien wants to learn more about their influence on rotting ...

A University of Tennessee professor is using her Body Farm research to help investigate a pre-Civil Rights-era cold case. Dr. Amy Mundorff is an anthropology professor who pioneered research to find ...

The CSI TV shows are among the most watched in the world. But forensic science is hitting a little close to home for some Texas property owners, who oppose plans for a nearby “body farm,” where ...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) -- A professor at the University of Northern Iowa says he still wants to create a body farm where the decomposition of the human body can be studied, he just doesn't have any ...

This specimen of the bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx exhibits what paleontologists call the dinosaur death pose or the opisthotonic death pose. An experiment on reptile decomposition aims to shed ...

In 1994, when Patricia Cornwell published her best-selling mystery novel "The Body Farm," few people outside Tennessee had ever heard the term, let alone knew what a "body farm" was. The Body Farm − ...