Ancient DNA study uncovers kinship networks in Shimao City, revealing a complex social structure shaped by family ties and ritual sacrifice.

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

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

The research indicates that domestic cats first arrived on the continent roughly 2,000 years ago, coinciding with the early ...

A mammoth tooth reveals bacterial DNA from 1.1 million years ago, offering new clues about diseases and hidden ecosystems in ...

The circular arrangement of pits forms a boundary over two kilometers wide, enclosing more than three square kilometers around the Durrington Walls henge and Woodhenge monuments. Each pit measures up ...

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of ...

New evidence has been discovered that Norse people may have lived in Iceland almost 70 years after the widely accepted date.

Shimao ruins, an important prehistoric site located in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province Photo: Courtesy of National ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...