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.

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

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

Way back on February 21, 1951, a family in in Oakland, California was devastated when one their children, a 6-year-old boy, ...

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

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

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

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

DNA from saliva collected on a sidewalk led to the arrest of a Massachusetts man in connection with the 1988 murder of Karen ...

The highest court in the land did reject Reed’s request for a new trial in July of 2024. The rejection means the Texas Court ...

Today, the Iberian lynx is recovering from near extinction. More than 400 reproductive females were reported in the 2023 ...