Some humans may be part alien - after having extraterrestrial genes ‘inserted’ during abductions, scientists claim. The bombshell follows a study which analysed DNA from ordinary people and folk who ...

When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

There have always been two kinds of monsters in the Alien franchise, each responsible for so much death. The first and most famous are Xenomorphs. But they have only killed so many people because of ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...