Genetic ancestry tests claim to trace your roots and connect you with ancient peoples—but experts say the science doesn’t ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

In a hillside cemetery in southern Italy, the bones of a small Bronze Age community have yielded a secret that their stone ...

Scientists used mtDNA to confirm what many researchers had long suspected: the Chinese “dragon man” Harbin skull belonged to ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...

John was abandoned as a newborn and grew up with no knowledge of where he came from. Then one Christmas that changed.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Anna Simonyan, a twenty-year-old web and graphic designer residing in Valencia, Spain, thought she was ready to open the long ...

Genetic ancestry is a concept that has long captured people’s imaginations. It’s no surprise that it’s been turned into a ...

Sephardi Jews flourished for centuries in Muslim Spain and Portugal, creating a luminous culture of poetry, science, and ...

In the leafy outskirts of London, the small town of Epping became the center of controversy when protests erupted over a hotel housing asylum seekers. The issue escalated after an Ethiopian national ...