Scientists continue to study how interbreeding shaped our DNA, as similar patterns exist across the animal kingdom. These ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

These piercing eyes belong to a reconstruction of a Neanderthal, an ancient human relative that shared the planet with Denisovans and modern humans. Genetic research suggests that they went ...

Dire wolves vanished more than 12,000 years ago but science has brought them back, and now, the massive creatures made famous ...

Scientists have decoded the DNA of an ancient Egyptian man. His remains, found in a clay pot, suggest cultural links between ...

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

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

It may never be safe to swim at a "poor" beach in Norfolk as water quality issues continue to cause concern, a councillor ...