Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

A woman has issued a warning to others considering taking a DNA test after the one she did for fun changed her life forever.

Kate took a DNA test as a bit of fun and to prove people wrong about her family background - but it uncovered a devastating ...

A woman who was born in France to Portuguese parents has revealed she took a DNA test 'out of curiosity' - and the results ...

European nations have pledged more NATO funding partly through a novel redefinition of “defense.” Is it gimmickry or a more ...

Emma Lazarus had an overriding faith that supporting immigrants would lead to untold improvements across the nation and ...

No other Indian fruit can match the mango for its historical significance, its sociocultural importance and its almost ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

Colonizing Indigenous people—and exploiting their land and resources—has a long and brutal history. Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain in 1492. In recent years, the story of this journey ...