That sameness keeps biologists chasing one big puzzle: if the instructions are nearly identical everywhere, who wrote the first edition? The answer points to LUCA – the Last Universal Common Ancestor ...

(via Minute Earth) There is a point in human history where everyone alive at the time fits into one of two categories: Either they are the ancestor of nobody alive today, or they are an ancestor of ...

A man in China who scratched his lottery tickets while kowtowing to ancestors at their tombs has scooped the biggest win of his life and attributed his luck to the “blessings” of his forebears ...

The order operates with a strict regimen, using a comprehensive list that designates a few hundred gateway ancestors who immigrated to the American Colonies between the years 1620 and 1640 during the ...

This gradual uplift of land enabled the early ancestors of animals such as giraffes, elephants, rhinoceroses, cheetahs, and even humans, to roam between Africa and Asia. The appearance of the land ...

Those of us counting on great-grandparents, or even more distant ancestors born after 1861, were out of luck. Just like that, any dreams I had of retiring to a crumbling $1 house near a rapidly ...

Crocodiles' ability to eat almost anything helped their ancestors survive two mass extinctions, suggests new research. The secret to their longevity could help conservationists better protect species ...

The last main game in the series, King’s Field IV, was released in 2004 for PlayStation 2.Most believe that FromSoftware hasn’t developed a King’s Field game since then; however, in 2004, it released ...

Researchers uncovered evidence that our ancestors survived a population crash that lasted over 100,000 years, leaving just around 1,280 individuals. This severe bottleneck occurred roughly between ...

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans ...