Scientists can start extracting DNA from the rare, often extinct, animal specimens collected over the centuries and preserved in jars of liquid at natural history museums around the world under a ...

Swedish Researchers Extract Ancient Scandinavians' DNA From a 10,000-Year-Old 'Chewing Gum' Advanced technology has finally allowed experts to analyze DNA from a chewed-up birch bark in Sweden ...

A technique originally devised to extract DNA from woolly mammoths and other ancient archaeological specimens can be used to potentially identify badly burned human remains, according to a new ...