Her mother was Alaska Native of the Ahtna Athabascan people. She had been named for an aunt who died in a boarding school for ...

"This was one of our oldest unidentified cases. And I think it just goes to show you that no matter how long somebody persists in being unidentified, we won't give up trying to identify them," the ...

Marion McWhorter went missing in Oregon in 1974. Now, remains found two years later have been identified as her, through DNA ...

According to a new study by Yale researchers published in Nature, trees host diverse and unique microbial communities, ...

Remains found in 1976 have been identified as Marion McWhorter, who went missing two years before when she turned 21 years old, Oregon State Police said.

Recent groundbreaking research into ape genomes has uncovered mysterious non-human DNA structures that challenge our ...

Researchers looked at DNA from 29 otters and discovered that they fall into two very different groups. They suggest giving ...

A moss hunter was searching in Wolf Creek near Swamp Mountain in Linn County on July 24, 1976, when they stumbled upon a skull, police said, adding that the hunter contacted the Linn County Sheriff’s ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

Volcanic eruptions on the remote island of Nishinoshima repeatedly wipe the land clean, giving scientists a rare chance to ...