The ocean wealth of this important sub-region in the Pacific—which includes two Coral Triangle countries—is essential to its survival, and is now under threat. A timely new report by WWF, the Global ...

For several years, blond hair was attributed to Caucasians but the Melanesians of Solomon Islands are one of the few groups with blonde hair outside Europe. Melanesia is a sub-region of Oceania ...

A tiny population of Pacific Islanders have been hiding evidence of a previously unknown, long extinct human relative in their genes. The people of Melanesia — populating the sunny islands stretching ...

Many people have DNA inside them that they inherited from extinct hominins like the Neanderthals – and now we know that in some cases it isn’t just tiny snippets but long stretches. Over the past ...

Scientists are constantly learning about our history as a species. Sometimes, these new discoveries change everything we think about a specific population. IScientists found DNA not linked to any ...