It's a mystery that has left experts scratching their heads for decades, but just how did humans make their way from Europe to North America? After years of uncertainty, a new discovery might just ...

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 ...

New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, ...

Thousands of years ago, groups of ancient people made the dangerous journey across the icy land bridge of the Bering Strait ...

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings under the mountain and the last of its lineage,” Slimak told the website ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

Genomic studies show Papua New Guineans are closely related to Asians, shaped by isolation, adaptation, and Denisovan ...

The remains weren't discovered by police detectives, but by South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology ...

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

Now a permanent resident at the Corolla Wild Horse Fund Sanctuary, away from the untamed beaches, Riptide has risen to the occasion, helping track the herd's hoofprints through history through the ...

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, scientists created a new way to tell someone’s age using just a bit of DNA. This ...