Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Zoologist Melissa Hawkins uses museum specimens and field expeditions to study rodents and primates Tess Joosse Every Groundhog Day, millions in North America wait for a small brown rodent to predict ...

What does it mean to be human? For a long time, the answer seemed clear. Our species, Homo sapiens — with our complex thoughts and deep emotions — were the only true humans to ever walk the Earth.

A genetic analysis of dozens of ancient skeletons from East Africa helps pin down the origins of coastal Swahili society. By Elie Dolgin A long history of mercantile trade along the eastern shores of ...

Ancient DNA reveals that childhood viruses lived with humans for thousands of years, reshaping how we understand human and ...

Long before modern medicine named and cataloged human herpesviruses, at least one of them was already quietly embedding ...

Two new articles are rewriting history with the first full-length genomes for homosporous ferns, a large group that contains 99% of all modern fern diversity. Ferns are notorious for containing ...

Across three studies, Iosif Lazaridis, David Reich, and colleagues present a comprehensive genomic history of the so-called “Southern Arc,” a region spanning southeastern Europe and Western Asia and ...

Malaria is often considered a tropical disease, but data hidden in historical human remains has shed new light on the parasite's world travels. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

How old are birds? We're not counting birthday candles on a cake of seed and suet. Rather, how long have our commonly seen birds been part of this world? For the Eastern bluebird, the answer is at ...