In this episode, hosts Andrew Daniels and John Gilpatrick dive deep into the mysterious origins of all life on Earth—and the ...

When scientists first discovered these remains of a teenage girl in 2010, they knew that the history of early humans was ...

Humans first arrived in South America through a series of extraordinary migrations – and genetic studies now reveal more ...

A team led by Gianpiero Cavalleri at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin pieced together the new map using the genetics ... Were there any other famous ancestors hiding out in Irish genes?

Old plat books are often found at libraries, museums, courthouses and survey offices in the areas where ancestors lived. Several of the old plat maps have been digitized and are online free.

After the January announcement, American Ancestors’ role expanded from constructing family trees to doing the historical research in full. Their methodology is the “same” as HSRP’s former ...

A South Korean man tending a family grave is suspected of sparking one of the record wildfires that ravaged the southeastern part of the country last week, the National Police Agency said on Monday.

The best way we have to reconstruct the history of litter size is to map the known litter size of ... likely litter size of different mammalian ancestors: What were the odds of a singleton birth ...

In hopes of finding information that could be helpful for my genealogy research, I checked to see if my great-great grandfather Milton’s surname, “Hinton,” appeared on that list. When I saw ...

Through the viewfinder, he saw my world upside down and mirrored from reality—a perspective from which his great-grandfather, ethnographer Edward Curtis, had seen my ancestors ... with your eyes ...

But in that short time, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of human ancestors in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see mapped out in the infographic below. The first known fossils ...