Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

From Kate McKinnon to Rashida Jones, here’s every key cast member and the characters they play in Andrew Stanton’s In the Blink of an Eye. Read more.

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

Neanderthal and homo sapiens mated, but it was mostly only the men of the former species with the females of the latter. This explains a major DNA problem that scientists have noticed in the human ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

Scientists have long known that Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals, who thrived across Europe and western Asia between about 400,000 and 40,000 years ago before going extinct. Now, new research ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

A new study suggests preeclampsia, a deadly pregnancy disorder, may have contributed to Neanderthal extinction.

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

Genomic analysis shows that interbreeding between female Neanderthals and human males was less common than the opposite ...