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, ...
An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...
The moment a creature dies, its DNA begins to break down. Half of it degrades every 521 years on average. By about 6.8 million years, even under ideal preservation conditions in cold, stable ...
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 ...
Scientists were able to isolate the oldest human DNA yet, they announced today, but the 400,000-year-old genome sequence actually prompted more questions than it answered. Spain's a long way from ...