Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, ...

Mysteries surround the elusive Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate in the world. Researchers have new insight into the unique fish’s genetic makeup.

Chinese scientists have successfully assembled the chromosomal-level genome of the critically endangered Ochetobius elongatus a rare fish species fro ...

HERVs are genetic remnants of ancient viral infections that have integrated into the human genome. As they typically lie dormant until aging or disease cause them to reactivate, these targets are ...

Bedbugs. Just mentioning the tiny, biting insects that live on human blood and infest mattresses, couches, and bedding ...

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with ...

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society estimates that by year end, 2024 will have seen 187,740 Americans diagnosed with a blood ...

The study authors found the shark’s genome to be extraordinarily large, twice as long as a human’s and bigger than any other shark genome sequenced to date. The researchers are analyzing the ...