Everett Ruess, a vagabond young artist and friend of Dorothea Lange, loved America's wildest vistas. Then he vanished into them forever.

An Ancestry genealogist shares how to use DNA results, family stories and historical records to trace your roots and plan a trip to the places your ancestors called home.

The first Americans, seen here eying mammoths at an ancient lake, descend from the Ancient North Siberians and a group of ...

An Ancestry genealogist shares how to use DNA results, family stories and historical records to trace your roots and plan a ...

A genetic study published in Nature examined 15 ancient individuals from Easter Island and challenged the long-standing theory that the Rapa Nui civilization experienced a catastrophic population ...

Everyone's favorite (and not-so-favorite) ankle biter is the star of a new study, and it turns out these little dudes have a ...

One of the unresolved mysteries about the history of the Americas is when the first people arrived. Despite extensive debate ...

What happened during the TODAY show’s trip to Ireland on Friday, October 16? Follow along for a play by play recap.

Nine years ago, a team led by the archaeologist Adam King ran thirty one broken pieces of pottery from the Etowah site in ...

A new study of ancient DNA indicates that the ancestors of modern Native Americans first arrived in the New World not earlier ...

Mel Carr was left feeling 'like a nuisance' when couch surfing as a teen, but, now 46, is helping highlight the stories of ...

A new study finds the same waʻa settled both Hawaiʻi and Easter Island, carrying genes that leave some at risk of rare ...