The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

Charles “Buffalo” Jones invented the cow-buffalo hybrid in 1888. His intention? To create the hardiest free-range livestock ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. was in Erie Dec. 4 as the final speaker of the 17th season of the Jefferson Educational Society's ...

A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...

A research team led by Professor Luo Shujin from the School of Life Sciences has uncovered a surprising chapter in the ...

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan population that’s spread throughout Eurasia.

More than 30 apple trees persist on The Purchase at the national park. They're more than 125 years old, and their DNA is ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of ...

Nearly 250 years ago, Europeans established their first permanent settlement in Australia and came into contact with the continent’s Aboriginal people. Now, a new study published in Science Advances ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...