Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...

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

Thousands of years ago, groups of ancient people made the dangerous journey across the icy land bridge of the Bering Strait ...

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

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

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

Denisovan-derived DNA shaped Indigenous American ancestry, helping early peoples adapt to new environments, foods, and ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

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 ...

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

Four thousand years ago, a sheep in the Eurasian Steppe carried a lethal bacterium that once swept across continents. The ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient ...