Scientists have traced the ancestry of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago and quickly became dominant across Eurasia. The research published Thursday suggests that’s when ...

Ancient bones pulled from the soil of central South America are rewriting what I thought I knew about the peopling of the continent. Genetic work on 8,500 year old remains has revealed a distinct ...

HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) — DNA and a 20-year-old genealogy expert helped state police identify the man who abducted, raped and murdered a young girl in a case that rattled a Pennsylvania coal town nearly ...

A mounted cowboy silhouetted by the sunset at a beef cattle feedlot, raising his lasso rope. Scientists have traced the ancestry of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago and ...