In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.

Frank McGrath spent the first 76 years of his life believing he was an only child. Last year, his world was forever changed ...

For 47 years, Heather Lally never knew her dad. Then a DNA test connected her to the birth father she didn't know she had, a ...

What started as a fun peek into ancestry quickly turned into life-altering information for many of these people. The stories ...

Congratulations: Thanks to all — the institutions and the people — who enrich our holiday period with exhibits and living history presentations that take us back to the days of our ancestors. We might ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Donald Trump's administration is turning immigration screening into the backbone of a DNA surveillance system that reaches ...

The Sverris Saga, written in the 12th century, describes King Sverre’s rise to power and his conflict with the Baglers. The ...

A woman from Arizona has stepped forward with a deeply personal story that challenges the public narrative around Miley Cyrus ...

Dr Carika Weldon made history as the first Bermudian to present at the IWF Cornerstone Conference, highlighting CariGenetics’ ...

A pair of fossils once thought to be the youngest woolly mammoth remains ever found in Alaska have turned out to be something entirely different: whale bones. What seemed like a groundbreaking ...

The 1800s saw the transition of the food industry from one of self-sufficiency to central mass production to support the ...