For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, descending from a single ancestral lineage. However, recent ...

Sturgeon are among the oldest fish on Earth, yet many present-day sturgeon species are at threat of extinction, with 17 of 27 species listed as “critically endangered.” Sporting an armor of five rows ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Ancient DNA shows an endangered dove species endemic to Cuba is more genetically distinct than the dodo was before it died out.

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals ...

Current processing techniques for harvesting DNA from osseous elements are destructive, and success rates vary widely. When skeletal elements are homogenized into a fine powder, endogenous DNA may be ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...

Colossal Biosciences plans to revive the woolly mammoth using gene editing. But is de-extinction a breakthrough or a costly ...

New study challenges the theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of part of ...

Exclusive: Colossal CEO Ben Lamm considers the similarities between their efforts to bring back the woolly mammoth with Michael Crichton’s worst fears in Jurassic Park.

A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin meaning 'pertaining to the ...