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Marcellus Williams was executed by Missouri on Tuesday evening for the 1998 murder of journalist despite objections from his ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Richmond County District Attorney’s Office is requesting DNA swabs of five defendants in an ongoing ...

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James Fitzjames was one of the captains of British explorer Sir John Franklin's two ships that went missing in 1845.

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.