A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever ...

Sticking with a long-term life partner to rear children has long been considered a dominant mating pattern for our species, ...

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

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

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

Doctor of Philosophy graduate Dr Valter Almeida’s research has revealed remarkable diversity of previously unknown gut ...

New genetic research suggests centuries of human persecution may have selected for calmer behavior in Italy's rare Apennine ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By following changes in human, animal and microbial DNA over time, researchers ...

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

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 Green Sahara.