A new study reveals a dramatic population replacement in France 5,000 years ago, as Iberian newcomers displaced local ...

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that redraws the map of the ancient world. His DNA captures a moment when people from ...

The Shroud of Turin is a 14.4-foot by 3.6-foot linen cloth bearing the faint, negative image of a crucified man. For centuries, millions have believed it to be the authentic burial shroud of Jesus of ...

In a hillside cemetery in southern Italy, the bones of a small Bronze Age community have yielded a secret that their stone graves never hinted at. Ancient DNA pulled from those remains has exposed a ...

Researchers have uncovered microbial evidence in the remains of Napoleon’s soldiers from the 1812 Russian retreat. Genetic analysis revealed pathogens behind paratyphoid and relapsing fever, diseases ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival technologies, such as stone tools. They may also have given us the secret to a ...

The bond between humans and dogs is one of nature's most enduring partnerships, but exactly when it began has long been a mystery. Now, a new study has turned back the clock. The study, titled "Dogs ...

Ciara Wanket drilling for sedaDNA samples in Canada’s Yukon territory. This ash layer from the volcano eruption she studied is visible as a pale stripe in the dark permafrost sediment. For the first ...