For over three decades, the world pictured Ötzi the Iceman as a rugged, fair-skinned, and hairy prehistoric hunter braving the freezing Alpine winds. Discovered by chance in 1991 by two German hikers, ...

For more than 40 years, the Golden State Killer haunted California. A serial rapist and murderer active in the 1970s and '80s, he eluded detectives for decades. By 2018, hope of identifying him was ...

Ancient DNA from a medieval burial inside a Neolithic monument reveals unexpected ancestry links and hints that the site’s ...

DNA reveals the unique story of a man buried in Menga whose roots lie in Iberia, Africa, and the Mediterranean a thousand ...

Fresh DNA sequencing from 302 strays exposes 390 unique genes near the plant, challenging everything we thought about ...

The ATLAS Research Group at the University of Seville (HUM-694) is collaborating in an archaeogenomic study carried out by the UK universities of ...

Every March, St. Patrick's Day rolls around with parades, pints of Guinness, and plenty of Kelly green. But for many Irish Americans, it also brings something deeper: curiosity. Where exactly did your ...

Every March, St. Patrick's Day rolls around with parades, pints of Guinness, and plenty of Kelly green. But for many Irish Americans, it also brings something deeper: curiosity. Where exactly did your ...

Alex Sundby is a senior editor at CBSNews.com. In addition to editing content, Alex also covers breaking news, writing about crime and severe weather as well as everything from multistate lottery ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — A Q-tip, a tissue and a pizza crust. To investigators, this seemingly innocuous trash was DNA-laden treasure, helping crack the cases of the University of Idaho murders, the Golden ...

Genetic genealogy – the forensic tool behind hundreds of long‑stalled case breakthroughs, including the 2016 slaying of a New Jersey man found shot and dumped on a Brandywine Hundred neighborhood ...