Natural Trap Cave is a pit in northern Wyoming into which countless animals have fallen and met their untimely demise since the Pleistocene. Paleontologists today find the cave a treasure trove — a ...

Over the last 10 years, breakthroughs in understanding the genetic instructions passed from parent to offspring have put ...

Smithsonian contributing writer Michael Ray Taylor about what rappelling into Natural Trap Cave reveals about its contents ...

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Campers immersed themselves in activities including wound suture, incision and drainage workshops, x-ray images, and even extracting DNA.

Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

How advanced DNA technology helped investigators make a breakthrough in the nearly 30-year-old case of missing 6-year-old ...