New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary ...

It took nearly 50 years to work out the identity of a caribou-like fossil first discovered by construction workers.

A new study of animal bones from Jamestown reveals colonists ferried donkeys across the Atlantic, reshaping early American ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

When a DNA test came back, it revealed their “golden” was, in fact, a super mutt—primarily Chow Chow (28.9 percent), American pit bull terrier (27.9 percent), German shepherd (6.9 percent), and ...

Michigan Tech's Genomic Sequencing Lab, part of the University's Health Research Institute, plays a leading role in tracking ...

A recent study in Science Advances is changing the story of how some of North America's earliest European settlers used animals. "While Spanish colonists brought horses to the Caribbean decades ...

A 60-year-old man was found dead at an Arkansas campground after a rare fatal bear attack, as reported by the Newton County Sheriff’s Office.Authorities claimed that the victim’s ...

Learn more about where Jamestown colonists first found donkeys on their voyage to the Americas. Hint, they didn’t come from ...

Two backpackers did indeed encounter a bear, but the “bear didn’t touch them and didn’t attack them,” a Game and Fish ...

We’re in probably the greatest [period of] inequality our species has ever seen, and so the natural question for many of us arises, ‘how did we get here?’” said archaeologist Paul Duffy of Kiel ...

Another controversial additive is titanium dioxide, which is often used to make foods appear brighter and whiter. It’s common in candies like Skittles, Nerds, and M&Ms in North America, but those same ...