In a remarkable turn of events, scientists have stumbled upon non-human DNA from ancient fossils, shaking the very ...

The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?

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Forty-nine years after skeletal remains of a young woman were found in the Wolf Creek area near Swamp Mountain in Oregon, ...

Valerie Nagle spent decades wondering what happened to her older sister who was last seen in Oregon in 1974. She searched ...

A team of researchers led by Rice University, in collaboration with colleagues in Mozambique and The University of Texas MD ...

(CNN) — An enigmatic skull recovered from the bottom of a well in northeastern China in 2018 sparked intrigue when it didn’t match any previously known species of prehistoric human. Now, scientists ...