Learn more about the people who once used Grotta della Monaca as a sacred burial site.

High on the sheer limestone cliffs in southwest China, ancient wooden coffins remain wedged into rock faces hundreds of feet ...

DNA analysis reveals the unique genetic story of the Piceni people, a mysterious civilization that thrived in Italy before ...

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

In a hillside cemetery in southern Italy, the bones of a small Bronze Age community have yielded a secret that their stone ...

Scientists extracted RNA from a 130-year-old specimen, uncovering which genes were active before the animal went extinct.

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...

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Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

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A recent study has shown that the human ancestral DNA plays a crucial role in defining an individual's longevity.