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 ...

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.

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

A skeleton found in Vietnam contains a bone that was likely pierced by a projectile. It may be the earliest sign of interpersonal conflict in mainland Southeast Asia, research suggests.

Ancient bacterial DNA offers rare insights into how microbes evolved alongside their hosts and how they connect to species ...

A well-preserved human skeleton that scientists recently excavated in Vietnam dates back about 12,000 years ago to the Ice ...

Using metagenomic screening — a technique for sequencing genetic material in samples that contain genomes from a mixture of ...

Scientists say they have recovered the oldest DNA on record, extracting it from the molars of mammoths that roamed northeastern Siberia up to 1.2 million years ago in research that broadens the ...

Two kilometres under the ice sheet in Greenland, scientists have found the oldest samples of DNA ever recovered, providing evidence that the island was much warmer hundreds of thousands of years ...