Researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park, may have captured ancient DNA from the Italian High Renaissance ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the long-extinct woolly rhinoceros from remains found in the stomach of a naturally ...

“We may never know precisely how life began, but understanding how some of its ingredients take shape is within reach.

Beachy Head woman grew up locally in Roman Britain, according to new genetic and chemical analysis of a 2,000-year-old ...

A rare sample from a woolly rhinoceroses reveals how the population changed in the lead-up to the species’ extinction.

Early efforts focused on mitochondrial DNA, which is more abundant in cells, but researchers have now shown that even nuclear DNA can be recovered from sediments. One group described how nuclear DNA ...

Studying how ancient animals lived and why they died out can offer important insight to protecting species today.

San Diego seen through the stories, family heirlooms and artifacts from its military history. This Emmy-nominated documentary takes a historical look at the San Diego region as told through the ...

For centuries, the Nephilim have existed at the edge of belief, somewhere between myth, scripture, and whispered conspiracy. Mentioned briefly in ancient texts, they are described as giants, warriors, ...