This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Denisovans were an extinct human group identified almost entirely through DNA rather than complete skeletons. First discovered in Siberia, their genetic legacy is still present in populations across ...

Professor Tim Coulson could never imagine his dog inheriting the Earth, building a city of kennels with bones as currency.

Why is swapping saliva something all human societies have normalised? Turns out kissing isn't just a human thing — all sorts of species appear to kiss, and new research suggests Neanderthals did it ...

The knowledge of how to make fire rather than relying on the exploitation of naturally occurring fire marked a key ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

They also added that these findings provide new insights into human migration, technological exchange, and the early contacts ...

The debate that “pure” dingoes need protection has taken a new twist, with the latest genetic research revealing widespread ...

A team of researchers in Norway, home to the largest remaining wild salmon populations as well as one of the largest ...