Every household dog, from a towering Great Dane to a trembling toy breed, traces back to wild wolves. New genetic work shows ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

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Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for ...

In a groundbreaking new episode, CNN's long-running series Vital Signs delves into the cutting-edge science of hibernation, ...

Laboratory chemists are now edging closer to the moment when lifeless molecules first organized into the chemistry that would ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to ...