Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

Ancient zoonotic diseases spiked 6,500 years ago due to farming and migration—reshaping human health and aiding future ...

Uralic languages, which includes Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, are distinctly different from Indo-European languages that ...

In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Imagine a world where enormous cats once prowled the wilderness with teeth so long, they looked like ivory daggers. Most ...