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

Ancestry.com is a genealogy website that allows users to trace their historical and genetic genealogy using its database of more than 10 billion historical records. Ancestry.com offers mail-in DNA ...

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.

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 ...

Researchers say the Nazi dictator had Kallmann syndrome, which is characterized by incomplete puberty, and genes that made it more likely he had autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder ...

Wendy D. Roth receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canada Foundation for Innovation. University of British Columbia provides funding as a ...

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

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

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 ...