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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago ...