Louis XIV, who was the King of France and the longest reigning monarch in European history, died on Sept. 1, 1715 ...

Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was a lush and fertile landscape, home to thriving communities. A new study ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Long-buried traces of Denisovan DNA have resurfaced in modern human genomes — and they may still be working for us today.

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Daigle’s research showed that 87% of his 331 students had French ancestry, 81% had Indigenous ancestry and 70% specifically ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

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After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

Hopefully, it’s a problem that butterfly researchers won’t have to face for too much longer. A new museum research project, known as AMISTAD, is combining ancient DNA, modern computing technology and ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Toronto police said they had connected the murders of three women, which occurred between 1982 and 1997 and involved three ...