This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

A startling discovery has reignited one of science’s oldest questions: where did life truly begin? Researchers analyzing a ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

A University of Copenhagen team analysed thirty tar lumps from nine Alpine lake settlements, detecting male DNA on tool ...

(CNN) -- There were no genetic tests 400,000 years ago, so our ancient relatives didn't know as much about themselves as we know about them now. Scientists have reconstructed a nearly complete ...

The DNA belonged to an extinct horse genus and is the oldest genome ever collected from an open-air site. Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: ...

In a spectacular bit of science, a group of scientists has sequenced the DNA from the femur of a man who died 45,000 years ago. The femur they studied is over 20 times older than this 2000 year old ...

A gene that helped bowheads adapt to frigid Arctic waters also granted them extraordinary longevity. Could it help aging ...