A high-coverage genome extracted from Belgium’s Goyet Cave, combined with genomic data from a late Neanderthal individual ...

Scientists have found that the "sudden" cardiac death condition related to high-profile deaths or major medical episodes of ...

New structural variation sequencing reads long stretches of fetal DNA to pinpoint duplications, flips, and rearrangements, ...

Ancient bones and DNA reveal that dog diversity and their close relationship with migrating humans developed thousands of ...

Potatoes have long been a cornerstone of the Andean diet. Now, new research suggests that history may also be reflected in ...

Scientists say some of the traits that define modern humans may have evolved only after long-standing biological and cultural ...

Fossils often preserve bones well enough to reveal the shape of an ancient animal, but traces of soft tissues are much less ...

Learn how ancient DNA found in Medici family bones in Tuscany links two brothers’ deaths to malaria and challenges centuries ...

For a long time, the last Neanderthals in Europe were pictured as a genetically diverse bunch, scattered across the continent ...

NORMAN — Research co-authored by an Oklahoma Museum of Natural History curator, her graduate student and an international ...

Researchers extracted DNA from long-dead animals that lived in South Africa during the last ice age, revealing that genetic ...

Your DNA is constantly changing. And if it weren’t for genetic mutations, evolution wouldn’t exist. So, what would life be ...