The Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the most iconic predators in Earth's history, hides distant origins spanning Asia and North America. A recent study traces the journey of its ancestors across ancient ...

Chinese scientists have traced the origins of the “ghost ancestors” of modern Tibetans to the southwestern province of Yunnan through analysis of ancient DNA. Advertisement.

American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is America’s founding genealogical organization and the most respected name in family history. Established in 1845, they are ...

Society Our ancestors did something mysterious 23,000 years ago and now we can understand its true impact. Asians made the longest prehistoric migration in human history and shaped the genetic ...

New Orleans embraces healing ritual for wronged ancestors New Orleans conducts powerful jazz funeral for repatriated African American remains after 150-year journey from Germany By Vera Emoghene ...

Moving like your ancestors is the primal fitness trend gaining ground as more people shift toward functional training. Quadrobics, a workout where participants move on all fours like four-legged ...

3-million-year-old stone tools found, and our ancestors likely didn’t make them. Evidence suggests the tools were used by the human relative Paranthropus, which scientists previously believed ...

Archaeologists working in Colombia’s Bogotá Altiplano recently uncovered ancient human remains that have left scientists puzzled. Genetic analysis of the 6,000-year-old skeletons revealed DNA ...

A new tool hopes to uncover the lost ancestry of enslaved African Americans. Prior to 1870, records rarely noted names of enslaved and formerly-enslaved people—this database is pooling resources ...

By Rebecca R. Bibbs / Chicago Tribune. Since news of the new pope, Robert Prevost, who assumed the name Leo XIV, hit the wires, he has been universally celebrated as being an American from Chicago.

The ancestry of the remaining 20 per cent remains unclear and is referred to as Tibet’s “ghost” population. In a new study, scientists sequenced DNA from over 125 individuals who lived in ...

The skull of Paranthropus robustus SK48. Credit: José Braga / Didier Descouens / Ditsong National Museum of Natural History / Wikimedia Commons Dr. Marc Dickinson, co-author of the study and ...