Many large mammals have lost genetic diversity, often thanks to the actions of people shrinking their populations. The ...

James Fitzjames was one of the captains of British explorer Sir John Franklin's two ships that went missing in 1845.

On May 31, 2024, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Bruce H. Brown, 23, ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

It has only recently been discovered that single-celled organisms (bacteria and archaea) also have histones—proteins that ...

Rodney Reed continues to seek DNA testing on murder evidence in his ongoing legal battle at the Fifth Circuit Court of ...

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.

Marcellus Williams, 55, is set to die Sept. 24 after being convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Lisha Gayle in her ...

AGAWAM — The Woo family, with roots in China, Los Angeles and here in the Pioneer Valley, had long sought a medal honoring a ...

New DNA analysis rules out the possibility that Kaspar Hauser was a “lost prince” kidnapped as a child nearly two centuries ...

In a region known for hosting some of the earliest evidence of modern humans, DNA analysis was sparse. Until now.

A man who spit on the sidewalk outside of his home in Boston is now charged with an unsolved 35-year-old murder.