Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

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

Ancient DNA from Mycenaean livestock reveals a rare western Mediterranean lineage in pigs at Tiryns, offering new insight ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

Analysis of Adolf Hitler’s DNA reveals he may have had a rare genetic disorder that delays puberty, a new documentary says. Experts say that more details are needed.

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

Earlier, in 2018, when scientists sequenced the DNA extracted from Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, a 10,000-year-old male ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...

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 ...