Over 5,300 years ago, ancient herders known as the Yamna people emerged from the steppes of what is now Ukraine, going on to ...

Police say they have cracked a 1998 cold case after arresting a suspect wanted for the death of a 24-year-old woman, who was ...

Historical inhabitants of the region that is now Ukraine have had diverse European, Asian and Middle Eastern ancestry for ...

Whether through singing, dancing, artifacts or maps, the Sankofa Children's Museum of African Cultures in Park Heights wants ...

Ancient DNA analysis provides new insights into our linguistic roots. Where did the Indo-European language family originate?

The victim of a 1991 homicide has been identified as Toussaint Gonsalves using investigative genetic genealogy, police said.

Yerba mate, along with tea and coffee, is one of the world's most popular caffeinated beverages. Widely consumed in South ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

Investigators have recently had some luck in putting names to some of the state's coldest cases of unidentified, though, ...