Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous ...

New research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural ...

Most modern dogs carry traces of wolf ancestry that subtly influence their behavior, appearance, and environmental adaptations.

On average, terriers, gundogs, and scent hounds have the least wolf ancestry. While some large guardian dogs have high wolf ...

Researchers who sequenced DNA from a blood sample found on a sofa in Adolf Hitler's bunker have made some shocking ...

Vestigial organs are anatomical structures that have lost all or most of their original evolutionary function. They represent remnants of organs that were functional in ancestral species but became ...

Genealogy website Ancestry.com — which filed for an IPO back in 2009 — has agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by European private equity firm Permira in a cash deal worth $1.6 billion, or ...

Brian Resnick was Vox’s science and health editor and is the co-creator of Unexplainable, Vox’s podcast about unanswered questions in science. Identical twins have virtually identical DNA. So you’d ...

DNA profiling company Ancestry.com has narrowly avoided complying with a search warrant in Pennsylvania after a search warrant was rejected on technical grounds, a move that is likely to help law ...

About 400 years ago, a cross between cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc gave birth to cabernet sauvignon. Today, cabernet ...