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 ...

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

Debate has long surrounded when humans first traveled into Sahul, the ancient landmass that is now Australia, New Guinea and ...

Boston startup Bystro AI believes the mail-in genetic tests used by millions to trace their ancestry could also help people ...

A team of researchers from the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History analyzed more than 2,700 genomes of dogs, wolves, and other canids from ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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