Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever been detected in human remains, until now. For decades, it has been unclear ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

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

Today’s wolves and dogs share a common ancestor. But a deeper look at their genes reveals that interbreeding since dogs were domesticated 20,000 years ago hasn’t been as rare as scientists assumed.

The modern house cat reached China in the 8th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

Ancient wolves lived with people on tiny Baltic island. Their bones show shared food and long contact that hints at early wolf management.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

Authorities have lifted a warning to stay out of forests near Utrecht, Netherlands, after DNA tests confirmed a wolf shot ...

Every household dog, from a towering Great Dane to a trembling toy breed, traces back to wild wolves. New genetic work shows that this ancestry is not just a distant story but a living imprint in ...