Tommy Zeigler, Florida's longest-serving death row inmate, is back in court for an evidentiary hearing that could lead to a new trial or his release, based on new DNA evidence.

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and ...

Domestic cats only started appearing in Europe about 2,000 years ago, much later than previously believed, and with a ...

Genetic evidence shows humans reached Australia 60,000 years ago and may have encountered 'hobbits' along the way in ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

In this new study, a team analyzed the genomes of 70 ancient cats, dating back over the last 11,000 years (from about 9000 BCE to 19th century CE). The genomes were taken from bones found in ...

Ancient bones buried deep in African soil are rewriting what we thought we knew about our shared human story. New genetic ...

The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have long been murky. Now, ancient DNA<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

A simple MyHeritage DNA kit sent TalkTV host Peter Cardwell on an emotional path of discovery, unearthing centuries of ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...