The first-ever Yeti identification is revealed by a DNA test. Science solves the mystery of the elusive Yeti it is said to be ...

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

In its case against Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, the prosecution’s most important piece of evidence may be a DNA sample taken ...

New ancient DNA research on Adélie penguin poo in Antarctica shows how several species respond to environmental change over ...

A new genetic study suggests that the builders of Stonehenge, constructed around 5,000 years ago, likely had dark skin, eyes, ...

In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

A new study examines cancer prevalence across hundreds of vertebrate species. Every multicellular creature, whether soaring ...

FREEHOLD -- Monmouth County's top judge has rejected Paul Caneiro's bid to keep critical evidence out of his quadruple murder trial, ruling late last week that DNA evidence generated by cutting ...

Superior Court Judge Marc C. Lemieux issued a 212-page ruling saying DNA evidence analyzed with a computer software program known as STRmix can be used in the trial of Paul Caneiro. Caneiro is ...

All of us pretty much jumped for joy when we heard the evidence against this person and could be fairly confident that they got this guy. A three-person mixture of unknown DNA was found under a 21 ...