The identity of the infamous 19th-Century serial killer may have finally been revealed thanks to modern forensic techniques.
A new study has put to bed the idea that the inhabitants of the enigmatic island inadvertantly wiped themselves out.
The new evidence would seem to put to bed the notion that claims of big cats roaming the British Isles are false.
Scientists are learning more about these long-lost nomads thanks to new DNA analysis techniques.
Physicist Prof Kenneth Ohm is one of a growing number of people hoping to have their remains sent to the Moon when they die.
These huge prehistoric carnivores were long thought to be close cousins of the modern day gray wolf.
Jaime Maussan is back in the limelight once again, this time claiming that the mummies are 'definitely not human'.
Andrew Benfield and Richard Horsey had traveled through the region looking for evidence of the legendary cryptid.
A strand of hair found on a fence following a sheep attack suggests that there are large predatory cats prowling the countryside.
Two unrelated individuals who look almost exactly the same may have more in common with one another than previously thought.
As technology improves, we could soon face the prospect of the theft and analysis of our DNA.
The feat has finally been achieved 19 years after the Human Genome Project sequenced 92% of it.
Forget Tinkerbell - the fairies of folklore in centuries past were nothing like those in today's stories.
Genetic ancestry tests are very popular these days - but just how accurate and meaningful are the results ?
A 19-year-old man from Arizona recently came up with a completely ridiculous plan to get the day off work.
Scientists have extracted DNA from the teeth of mammoths that roamed the Earth 1.2 million years ago.
A genetic science company in Australia has developed a way to detect the presence of thylacines out in the wild.
Scientists have analyzed genetic material from a tooth of an ancient human ancestor that lived 800,000 years ago.
Palaeontologists report that they have retrieved DNA from dinosaur fossils dating back to the Cretaceous.
By 'resurrecting' the DNA of extinct mammoths, scientists have learned what may have contributed to their demise.