Nearly 40 years after a skull was found in the woods in Bristol, investigators have now made an identification.

Investigators used genetic genealogy to identify remains found in 1986, known as Cranium Doe, as Warren Kuchinsky, giving his family long-awaited answers.

Because cremation dominates the Urnfield period, the Late Bronze Age has long been a “blind spot” for biomolecular research. The new study published in Nature tackled that gap by focusing on ...

A 2,800-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a chilling pattern: women and children deliberately targeted, most unrelated to one another, and buried in a ritualized ceremony.

A new interdisciplinary study published in Nature Communications provides the first detailed insights, from a biomolecular and archaeological perspective, into the lives of people living in Central ...

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

When I found out my father had been adopted, I was curious to know more about his side of the family. Nothing could have prepared me for what I would discover ...

A genetic test meant to introduce you to a lost cousin could also introduce info on your entire lineage to a stranger seeking profit.

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.

Far fewer people alive today are related to Genghis Khan than is commonly believed, according to a new study that upends the popular myth that one in 200 modern men are descendants of the Mongol ...

The panel ensures compatibility with our previous autosomal Family Finder tests plus all the autosomal transfers we ...