See the dramatic, deeply personal moment in the exclusive clip below. As proof of an ancestor named William Bell's duplicity, the PBS show's host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., presents the actress with ...

It’s a narrative underscored by a recent discovery—that of a well-preserved 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus hastalis, an ancestor of the great white shark, in the Pisco Basin of Peru.

Two Moriori karapuna or ancestors returned to Aotearoa last week. So far more than 500 ancestors have been repatriated, but work remains to bring home an estimated 150 who still remain in museums ...

The individual who is now thought to be the ancestor of all Yamna people was found in the Bronze Age archeological site of Mykhailivka in Ukraine. Having lived 5,300 to 5,700 years ago ...

A formal ceremony at the National Museum of Australia transferred custodianship of two Moriori karāpuna, or ancestors, to representatives of the Hokotehi Moriori Trust. The remains are bound for ...

Harvard transferred its enslavement identification program to American Ancestors, the group leading the 10 Million Names project. On Thursday, Jan. 23, Harvard University transferred the research ...

Madison Fazio and Jonathan King share an ancestor in the third governor of Australia, Philip Gidley King, but have only just met.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer “But I take huge pride in our side ...

Pioneering genetics research by Dr Hans Eiberg and his colleagues at the University of Copenhagen has traced blue-eyed individuals to one ancestor about 10,000 years ago near the Black Sea ...

Designed to honor the lives and legacies of the African diaspora, the African Ancestors Garden at the International African American Museum integrates cultural symbolism, native plants, and evocative ...

“A lot of people believe there is a discordance between what we eat today and what our ancestors evolved to eat,” says paleoanthropologist Peter Ungar of the University of Arkansas. The notion ...

Learn the basics you'll need to get started on your own research, from drawing up your family tree to exploring the archives. If you're tackling archives for the first time in a search for your ...

This means they’ve independently evolved those similarities rather than inheriting them from a common ancestor.’ We observe this phenomenon all over the tree of life, from mammals and invertebrates to ...