The complete genome of an ancient Egyptian has been sequenced, revealing genetic links between the Nile and Mesopotamia 5,000 ...

What’s furry, cute, and may have ancestral ties to ancient wolves? Possibly, your dog. Researchers at the New York-based American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

A new study from the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, showed that most modern dogs carry small but detectable traces of post-domestication ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A facial reconstruction was made using a 3D scan of the Egyptian man's skull. - Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores ...

More than three decades ago, a pair of hikers discovered the mummified body of a prehistoric man on an Alpine pass along the border of Italy and Austria. Archaeologists have been obsessed ever since.

CRISPR-Cas9 enables researchers to make precise and targeted edits in the genome to determine gene function. For this, scientists use guide RNAs, which are short stretches of RNA sequences that lead ...

I'm going to clue you in on a fact I discovered a few years ago: My great-grandparents were first cousins. Oh, and my mother has three secret siblings. Uncovering the secrets of your past is downright ...