Malgorzata Wnuczek was last seen returning from work in Leicester, England, on May 31, 2006. Her remains were found in ...

Scientists successfully extract RNA from a 130-year-old Tasmanian tiger, thylacine, revealing how its genes functioned before its extinction.

The "Dragon Man" skull reveals groundbreaking insights into Denisovans' genetics, appearance, and impact on modern humans.

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and other biorepositories like it are increasingly crucial to climate change research as ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

As the Arctic warms and sea ice disappears, polar bears are being pushed into conditions they have never faced before. Their ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...