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

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 ...

A large-scale study tracing human disease history back 37,000 years has identified harmful bacteria, viruses and parasites ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

New landmark research has successfully mapped 37,000 years of infectious disease across ancient human populations.

A new study maps infectious diseases across millennia and offers new insight into how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health landscape.

Colossal Biosciences has announced it will attempt to 'de-extinct' a group of birds called the moa, which once lived in New ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...