An ice age almost one million years ago led to a meeting between leopards from central and southern Africa that were searching for grassland. New research into the leopards’ genetics – their ...

Mesoamerica has an important role in the expansion of Paleoamericans as the route to South America. In this study, we determined complete mitogenome sequences of 113 unrelated individuals from two ...

Researchers report that they have found a direct genetic link between the remains of Native Americans who lived thousands of years ago and their living descendants. The team used mitochondrial DNA, ...

Scientists have decoded for the first time the mitochondrial genome of Lepidopygopsis typus, a unique freshwater fish species of the Western Ghats, known to occur only inside Kerala’s Periyar Tiger ...

All present-day and ancient Mesoamericans belonged to haplogroups A2, B2, C1, D1, and D4. Black: Teotihuacan. Purple: Other Ancient Mesoamericans. Green: present-day Maya. Magenta: present-day Mazahua ...