Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene ...

While it’s not certain that a wildlife crossing can save the last red wolves, scientists say that doing nothing will almost ...

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JFK, the son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He ...

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

Linsey Davis interviews Lee Hawkins, a journalist, about his searing new memoir, "I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My ...

Kentucky law enforcement agencies are increasingly using forensic genealogy to identify crime victims and suspects.

Whether you want to start a new fig tree to continue the lineage of a beloved heirloom specimen or share cuttings with fellow ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

From an attic window, the only one not blacked out, Anne could watch a tree mark the seasons before the Gestapo dragged her and her family away on August 4, 1944. “How could I have known how ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...