When the climate cooled, the population of Neanderthals shrank. Most that lived between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago were ...

There was a moment in human history when our entire existence may have desperately clung to a thousand or more people.

Conservationists have sounded the alarm for decades that habitat fragmentation is just as devastating to elephant populations ...

By the time modern humans began filtering into Europe around 45,000 years ago, the Neanderthals they encountered were already ...

The research, part of the Indigenous American Genomic Diversity Project, combined newly sequenced genomes with existing databases to analyze a total of 199 contemporary Indigenous individuals from 53 ...

New genetic results reveal a previously unknown wave of people settled in South America 1,300 years ago and that Indigenous ...

Published in Nature, the study includes 128 complete genomes and reveals over one million new genetic variants, uncovering a ...

SAN DIEGO — New research published in the journal Nature is shedding light on an alarming loss in biodiversity amongst animals in the wild. It’s the first comprehensive global analysis of genetic ...

How many animals are left, how quickly populations are growing or shrinking, and whether species are at risk of extinction.