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 ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

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 ...

A stretch of viral DNA in the mouse genome gives cells in early-stage embryos the potential to become almost any cell type in ...

Some DNA passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers has been found to be a crucial force in living to be 100 years old.

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 ...

Scientists reconstructed ancient genomes of human herpesvirus 6A and 6B from archaeological remains dating back over 2,500 ...

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

The remains of a distinct Bronze Age community found in the Grotta della Monaca caves within the Pollino massif in Calabria, ...