Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

For many people, discomfort during a medical injection or a long tattoo session feels especially intense. According to new ...

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland, College Park, may have captured ancient DNA from the Italian High Renaissance ...

Thousands of slate artifacts found on the Tibetan Plateau showcase the resiliency of early humans as they fanned out of ...

Just like Rome was not built in a day, human beings were also not what they look like today. It is centuries of evolution ...

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

Most pet dogs carry small fragments of wolf DNA, left behind after their long association with people. That genetic trace is ...

The lab has developed ultra-small DNA nanodevices that can function inside living cells, illuminating biological processes.

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...

Inside the stomach of an ancient wolf puppy found entombed in Siberian permafrost, scientists discovered meat from a woolly ...