A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

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

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

Jurassic Park—and its never-ending sequels and spinoffs—starts with a basic premise: extracting the DNA of long-dead ...

This holiday season, consider alternatives to stress ball fidget toys for your stocking stuffers. And if you have them, never ...

News4's Sarah Sims grabs Headland girls' basketball head coach Jy'Tu Blackmon at halftime during Friday's game to share his excitement for this season so far. News4's Sarah Sims sat down with Kenny ...

CLEVELAND (WEWS) — U.S. Marshals announced that after 60 years investigators were able to extract DNA from escaped inmate Lester Eubanks’ clothes and enter it into the Combined DNA Index System.

Days before a D.C. murder trial was to begin, prosecutors decided the evidence they had against the defendant — who was in custody for more than five years — was not good enough, and the victim’s ...

New research in rats indicates that a Mediterranean plant may be an effective treatment for ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease. The findings are published in the Journal of the ...

Third-graders in Dothan celebrated National DNA Day on Wednesday, April 23, by participating in a city-wide science experiment. For the second year in a row more than 700 students in 10 schools will ...

Elementary students in Neosho got a unique science lesson Wednesday when a Kansas City University professor taught them a lesson on DNA with strawberries rather than textbooks. Dr. Joseph Williams, an ...