In a hillside cemetery in southern Italy, the bones of a small Bronze Age community have yielded a secret that their stone ...

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

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

Today, sequencing machines can decode up to a hundred million times more DNA than their early predecessors. Where the first ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree.

In genetics, scientists must analyze the genomes of millions, if not billions, of people, each carrying millions of variants. It’s an unfathomable amount of data. Which leads us to another central ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a ...

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...

These genomes are the oldest yet found of modern humans in Europe, though they were not the first hominids to walk these ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...