Many large mammals have lost genetic diversity, often thanks to the actions of people shrinking their populations. The ...

Marcellus Williams was executed by Missouri on Tuesday evening for the 1998 murder of journalist despite objections from his ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

On May 31, 2024, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Bruce H. Brown, 23, ...

It has only recently been discovered that single-celled organisms (bacteria and archaea) also have histones—proteins that ...

A mother faked a DNA test in an attempt to stop the father of her newborn daughter from seeing the baby, a court has heard.

New DNA analysis rules out the possibility that Kaspar Hauser was a “lost prince” kidnapped as a child nearly two centuries ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, is set to die Sept. 24 after being convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Lisha Gayle in her ...

James Fitzjames was one of the captains of British explorer Sir John Franklin's two ships that went missing in 1845.

The skeletal remains of a crew member from Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition was identified in a joint ...

AGAWAM — The Woo family, with roots in China, Los Angeles and here in the Pioneer Valley, had long sought a medal honoring a ...

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.