Roughly 10,500 years ago, a teenage girl popped a piece of ancient “gum” into her mouth and started chewing. She probably had ...

New DNA studies show domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread later than believed, while ancient China lived ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time. Despite its proximity to other groups of ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

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

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...

U.S. scientists analyzed the DNA of numerous modern-day dog breeds, and found that two-thirds of pet dogs have traceable wolf ...

GETTYSBURG, Pa., Nov. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gettysburg Museum of History has issued an official statement clarifying the key historical findings presented in the new BBC documentary "Hitler's ...

Wolf DNA seems to have influenced the size, smelling power and even personality of modern dog breeds, scientists said.

Four rounds of DNA sequencing were compared with Y-chromosome samples from verified living relatives obtained by journalist Jean-Paul Mulders. Geneticist Dr. Turi King, known for identifying the ...