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 ...

In a hillside cemetery in southern Italy, the bones of a small Bronze Age community have yielded a secret that their stone ...

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.

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

DNA extracted from mosquito blood meals revealed traces of 86 vertebrate species, helping scientists track entire ecosystems.