New DNA tech leads to a Spokane, Washington man's arrest in Mary Ann Turner's 1986 murder. Find out how a clever ruse by ...

The first Americans, seen here eying mammoths at an ancient lake, descend from the Ancient North Siberians and a group of East Asians, who paired up around 20,000 to 23,000 years ago, genetic studies ...

He nearly swallows the sample before his DNA experiment even gets started A creator tests whether DNA can be extracted at home using salt water, dish soap and cold rubbing alcohol. By the end of the ...

The analysis points to a timestamp of no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but the data leaves a lot more to be desired. Reading time 4 minutes Compared to the rest of the world, the American continent ...

In a discovery that is already being compared to one of the most celebrated breakthroughs in human evolutionary science, researchers analysing ancient DNA from fragmentary, unidentifiable bones have ...

Ancient genomes show yak X, an extinct yak relative in Siberia, began splitting off 400,000 years ago and barely mixed with bison. Most extinct animals are known from their bones, usually a skull or a ...