A team of researchers from the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ...

Scientists find the DNA of a 300,000-year-old horse in Schöningen, driven to extinction by hunting, next to a wooden spear ...

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 ...

A tiny Crimean bone links Neanderthals to Siberia, revealing long-distance networks shaped by shifting climates and migration routes.

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

Bad guys beware: Your DNA is in the air. Scientists have discovered that human DNA can be easily found — allowing it to later be sequenced — virtually anywhere, from furniture to footprints and even ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.

Researchers identified a new, sticky form of mitochondrial DNA damage that builds up at dramatically higher levels than in ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

Scientists have broken the world record for sequencing DNA and they're already using the new tech to help care for newborns ...

Greenland has changed quickly in the past 25 years. Along with new foods, jobs and habits has come a sharp rise in type 2 ...