Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...

For many people, discomfort during a medical injection or a long tattoo session feels especially intense. According to new ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park, may have captured ancient DNA from the Italian High Renaissance ...

Just like Rome was not built in a day, human beings were also not what they look like today. It is centuries of evolution ...

A new study, which also found evidence of the high-risk strain in 45,000-year-old remains, suggests HPV has evolved alongside ...

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

Most pet dogs carry small fragments of wolf DNA, left behind after their long association with people. That genetic trace is ...

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...

A new global study into heartworm points to a new evolutionary paradigm, where ancient canid hosts such as wolves and dingoes ...