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 ...

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

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

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

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

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ...

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

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

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

STORY: This skull belongs to a previously unknown lineage of human beings, dating back about 6,000 years ago.That’s according ...

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 ...