Scientists have pinpointed a time frame in which Neanderthals began "mixing" with modern humans, based on DNA of early ...

A partial DNA profile from a bandana used in one of Australia's most notorious murders does not match the ringleader serving ...

The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a ...

Investigators in Mobile County finally have answers in the nearly 30-year-old cold case death of an infant girl.

A Massachusetts man faces charges for the 1979 rape and murder of a University of Texas nursing student, solved through DNA ...

Dozens of top scientists are warning that creating synthetic "mirror bacteria," composed of biomolecules that are the mirror ...

Ancient genomes reveal a narrow time window for Neanderthal and human interbreeding, raising new questions about their shared ...

The infant's body was exhumed two years ago for a forensic examination by genealogy expert Olivia McCarter and Moxxy Forensic ...

Four months ago, a dog in east Birmingham showed up at home with a human skull. That same dog now dragged home what could be another human bone.

Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern ...

Stalker killer Richard Ramirez married his wife Doreen Lioy while on death row in 1996. Here’s everything to know about ...

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