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

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

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

A groundbreaking genetic study has revealed that Italians who reach 100 carry significantly more ancient Western hunter-gatherer DNA than their younger counterparts. The research, published in ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.

Did humans not originate from Earth? That is a question which has always puzzled scientists. Now, a social media claim has ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

New DNA evidence reveals that the cats of ancient China were not what they seemed.

The curious skeleton of a Roman-era individual in Britain, nicknamed the Beachy Head Woman, is not who we thought she was.