Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever ...

Paleontologists have made a discovery that can change how we understand dinosaurs. Despite centuries of research into ancient times, there's so much more to uncover. A few months ago, a team of ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

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

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

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...