Colombia sits on the land through which Homo sapiens first spread from Central America to South America more than 14,500 ...

But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions for building and replicating almost all ...

Ancient DNA is peeling back layers of the mystery surrounding modern humans’ trysts with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago. Anthropologists have long known that the groups interbred ...

Clarifying that timeline ... remains discovered in Ranis, a cave site in present-day Germany that sits below a medieval castle. The remains date back about 45,000 years, and the DNA suggests ...

In the Altai Mountains, in southern Siberia, lies the famous Denisova Cave, the only place in the world where the presence of ...

What happened to 23andMe? Here's a look at its history from launch to bankruptcy and acquisition by Regeneron.

In February 1987, the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, was shaken by the discovery of Peggy Hettrick’s body in a field.