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That 800-Year-Old Corpse in the Well? Early Biological Warfare.

DNA Reveals the Origin Stories of America’s Captive Tigers

This Shark Lives 400 Years. Its DNA May Explain Why.

Francisco Lopera, Pioneer in Alzheimer’s Research, Dies at 73

Famine Drove Jamestown Settlers to Eat Native Dogs, DNA Reveals

The Last Stand of the Woolly Mammoths

A Tale of Two Nearly Extinct Giant Salamanders

Scientists Find the Largest Known Genome Inside a Small Plant

How the Cockroach Took Over the World

What Makes Tiny ‘Water Bears’ So Tough? They Quickly Fix Broken DNA.

Scientists Create Elephant Stem Cells in the Lab

What Is a Species, Anyway?

The Ancient Back Story of the Slimiest Animal in the Sea

Genes That Boost Fertility Also Shorten Our Life, Study Suggests

DNA Confirms Oral History of Swahili People

It Looks Like a Shell, but an Octopus and 40,000 Eggs Live Inside

First Known Family of Neanderthals Found in Russian Cave

How the ‘Black Death’ Left Its Genetic Mark on Future Generations

Paid to Fight, Even in Ancient Greece

Cracking the Case of the Giant Fern Genome