The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

A tiny Crimean bone links Neanderthals to Siberia, revealing long-distance networks shaped by shifting climates and migration routes.

Scientists find the DNA of a 300,000-year-old horse in Schöningen, driven to extinction by hunting, next to a wooden spear ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

Mitochondria are often described as the cell’s power plants, but a wave of new research suggests their genetic material may ...

A core of ice age sediment from northern Greenland has yielded the world’s oldest sequences of DNA. The 2 million-year-old DNA samples revealed the now largely lifeless polar region was once home to ...

RNA, widely known from the COVID-19 vaccine, is not actually a "therapeutic agent," but a technology that delivers the ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how ...

U.S. scientists analyzed the DNA of numerous modern-day dog breeds, and found that two-thirds of pet dogs have traceable wolf ...