Officials insist the investigation is still in full force and that they have some solid clues. The Sheriff's Department ...

Investigators used genetic genealogy to identify remains found in 1986, known as Cranium Doe, as Warren Kuchinsky, giving his ...

For nearly five decades, the mysterious disappearance of Peter Adams, who was just 20 at the time, went unsolved.

In October 2000, nearly three years after Dennis Craig Edmondson was reported missing, teens found the remains in a desert area in Golden Valley.

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

Archaeologists have found a prehistoric human skeleton deep inside a flooded cave system on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

Because cremation dominates the Urnfield period, the Late Bronze Age has long been a “blind spot” for biomolecular research. The new study published in Nature tackled that gap by focusing on ...

Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

Most people with non-African ancestry carry roughly 1–4% Neanderthal ancestry spread across their genomes, a legacy of contact after modern humans expanded into Eurasia. But the X chromosome, one of ...