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2 Million-Year-Old Mastodon Skull and Tusks Unearthed in Chile

Now that's some mammoth discovery. The skull and tusks of a 2 million-year-old elephant relative -- a mastodon -- have been unearthed in Chile. Construction workers building a hydroelectric power plant near the Chilean capital of Santiago dug up 4-foot-long, 6-inch-wide tusks as well as the first complete mastodon skull...

High Court Rules for Texas Inmate Who Wants DNA Testing

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday gave a glimmer of hope to a death row inmate in Texas who wants to test crime-scene evidence that he says may show he is innocent. The court's narrow, 6-3 ruling means that Hank Skinner, who was about an hour away from execution when the Supreme Court intervened last year, will...

Earthling Scientists Work on Plan to Call ETs

It's been nearly 40 years since humans first tried contacting extraterrestrials with radio telescope technology, and as far as we know, nobody has said "hello" back to us. If earthlings want to reach out and touch someone, we might have to change channels to connect with an intelligence that actually knows what we're...

1972 Murder of Blind Homemaker Heads to Trial

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Tommie Cray was 9 years old in 1947 when his father, a single parent with three sons, brought home a new companion who was raising three boys of her own. Annie Mae had a sweet Southern drawl and an easy laugh, and an emotional bond took hold right away. "She brought everybody's spirit up, she was so...

DNA News From the Web

05/25/12 Police to get enhanced DNA kits Source: ABC News - Australia Police forces across Australia are to be provided with new DNA profiling kits that make evidence collected from crime scenes much more accurate.
05/24/12 Hispanos and Sephardic ancestry Source: Discover A correspondent emailed me to tell me that Linda Chavez, whose father was a New Mexican Hispano , was found to have Sephardic Jewish ancestry in Henry Louise Gates Jr's Finding your Roots series.
05/24/12 Bigfoot Hair Needed for DNA Analysis Source: ABC - KDRV News Watch 12 - Medford OR Scientists at the university's Wolfson College have begun a study that sets out to identify the types of animals and species that hikers and mountaineers around the world have identified as Bigfoot, Yeti, and Sasquatch, according to the Associated Press.
05/24/12 New show traces cast DNA Source: Entertainment - New York Daily News A new music, dance and drama piece will focus on the ancestry of its cast â by tracing the DNA of the performers back tens of thousands of years.
05/24/12 DNA helps convict serial rapist in 1995 Glendora case Source: San Gabriel Valley Tribune A former probation officer serving time for two rapes was recently sentenced to 15 years in prison for the 1995 kidnapping and rape of a woman in Glendora.

Background on DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (; DNA) is a nucleic acid containing the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms (with the exception of RNA viruses).

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