By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) -Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings ...

Recent advances in ancient DNA analysis have sparked intriguing discussions about the possibility of non-human entities once ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

Archaeologists have analyzed the DNA of two unrelated individuals buried in 7th-century-AD cemeteries on the south coast of ...

But a novel technique is allowing us to peer back further than DNA's expiration date in Africa, to answer long-standing ...

Tel Aviv, Israel — Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according ...

A genetic study shows hunter-gatherers and farmers coexisted across Europe, challenging earlier views of a rapid agricultural ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering ...

A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west Ancient DNA is ...

New research shows that ancient dogs did not join Indigenous people in Central and South America until farming became popular ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery has rewritten our understanding of early medieval England, revealing that two individuals buried in seventh-century cemeteries had recent West African ancesto ...