Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people ...

A research team reconstructed the genome of an extinct horse species through an open-air extraction at the archaeological ...

In a landmark study, scientists have reconstructed ancient DNA from Burzahom, a Neolithic site in Kashmir, revealing genetic ...

Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of ...

It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a ...

Ancient DNA from an Egyptian genome has been sequenced for the first time, revealing genetic links to the Fertile Crescent.

Fragments of DNA left by viruses that infected our distant ancestors may be 'firestarters' for new human life, new research ...

An author and scientist says that upcoming moon missions will uncover a shocking forgotten city that was covered up during ...

The two Yunxian skulls used in the study were highly distorted, but Xijun Ni and his colleagues were able to reconstruct them using 3D modelling. ©Mr. Guanghui Zhao In the quiet bends of the Han River ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...