A major genetic study suggests that all living humans may trace their ancestry back to three African hunter-gatherer ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...

The genetic evidence is consistent with a father-daughter union, making it one of the clearest and earliest documented cases ...

Learn more about the hidden molecules uncovered in animal fossils from an ancient human site, and the new view they give us ...

Long before cats became internet icons or household companions, they earned their place by solving a very practical problem.

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Climate change is threatening Christmas and winter traditions—and in some cases, holiday trends are fueling it.

Analysis of centuries-old bones shows that the Jamestown colonists brought the beasts of burden to the New World.

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

If someone told you it rained fish once upon a time, would you believe them? You'd be forgiven if you said "no." But get this ...