Scientists have made a remarkable discovery hidden within the remains of mammoths that roamed Earth more than a million years ...

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in ...

New research has thrown light on one of the world's greatest genetic oddities - a DNA marker which shows up in Europe and ...

An international team led by researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics, has uncovered microbial DNA preserved in woolly ...

Scientists have confirmed that Yersinia pestis, the bacterium behind later plagues like the Black Death, caused the Justinian ...

Philistines were very likely of Greek origin, as a new DNA study traces the origins of the ancient villains in the Eastern ...

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare ...

Scientists have deciphered the genome of the bacterium behind the world's first recorded pandemic that swept through the ...

Theories range from extraterrestrial origins to an undiscovered human species, though skeptics call it a hoax. The bizarre ...

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child ...

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

Ancient DNA Ancient DNA used to map evolution of fever-causing bacteria Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analysed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that ...