D NA’s power to illuminate humanity’s past never ceases to amaze. Collected from those now alive, it shows how their ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...

An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living things on to specimens from the ...

A 2023 study found that Ötzi, the famous ancient glacier mummy who lived 5,300 years ago before succumbing to a violent death ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

Scientists believe they have identified the person from whom all Europeans are thought to be descended from after analysing ...

Around 66 million years ago, a marine creature from the Cretaceous era munched on some sea lilies and developed an […] ...

Ancient Magdalenians practiced cannibalism, consuming enemies and possibly loved ones, revealing prehistoric violence.