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

New research shows that a high-fat diet causes cellular damage that directly paves the way for liver cancer. The strain comes ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...

New breakthroughs in microbial analysis could enhance disease prediction, environmental protection and our understanding of the planet’s smallest life forms.

Researchers analyzed 333 Italian centenarians and compared their genetic composition to 103 ancient genomes to investigate ...

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

Since the announcements by federal health authorities earlier this year that federal mRNA vaccine funding will be curtailed, ...

“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 ...

Scientists have unraveled how an early form of Bronze Age plague that differed from the Black Death spread across Europe.