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A Bigfoot hunter who claimed to have found the legendary creature’s corpse now says he has scientific proof the remains are a ...

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An unidentified DNA sample found on one of Sophie Toscan du Plantier’s boots has returned to the heart of the case almost 30 ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

After more than two decades without leads or answers, human remains found in Washington state’s Olympic National Park in 2000 have been identified as Joseph Louis Serrao Jr. Subscribe to read this ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

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