In 1995, after a long search, the French supply ship La Belle was discovered in the waters of Matagorda Bay by a team from Texas A&M University. The ship sank during a storm in 1687, while explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle was looking for the mouth of the Mississippi River with four ships […]

Researchers from the University of Cambridge think that Neanderthals and modern humans probably shared similar DNA because of a common ancestor, and not because of interbreeding. Using computer simulations, evolutionary biologists Anders Eriksson and Andrea Manica found that the amount of DNA shared by modern humans from Eurasia and Neanderthals could be explained if both groups […]