“I uploaded my DNA and then they said if I was a match I would get a letter,” the woman told Newsweek.

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From female scientists whose work was credited to men to ancient high priestesses, these women truly changed history-but were also overlooked by it.

If you follow media coverage of koalas, you could be forgiven for feeling confused. Recent stories describe a “koala paradox”: endangered in the north of Australia, abundant in the south; genetically ...

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

Investigators partnered with a nonprofit genetic genealogy analysis organization to identify the man who the remains belonged ...

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

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

Nearly 40 years after a skull was found in the woods in Bristol, investigators have now made an identification.

In Lake Malawi, hundreds of species of cichlid fish have evolved with astonishing speed, offering scientists a rare opportunity to study how biodiversity arises.

Officials say they’ve identified a human skull discovered nearly four decades ago in Bristol as belonging to Warren Kuchinsky, a Plymouth man last known to be alive in the mid-1970s.