Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

The flowerpot snake, one of the world's smallest snakes, has some unusual distinctions. Also known as the Brahminy blind ...

The influence of an unknown population and its impact on intelligence was discovered in our DNA by researchers using a new ...

A forensic scientist testified in a Riverhead courtroom Wednesday that the scientific methods used to link DNA from degraded ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

At meeting on human embryo editing, CRISPR pioneer says science is a long way from knowing if germline DNA can be safely ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial killings and his attorneys spent another day in court debating over ...

The defense in the case has maintained the DNA techniques are not widely accepted and derided them as "magic." ...

Early human evolution may have been more complex than scientists previously thought, with modern humans evolving from two ...

Ancestry site's database holds genetic information of over 15 million people, but the company's bankruptcy has made its ...

Genetics testing company 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. to initiate the sale of its ...