In what the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) is calling an “unprecedented” discovery ...

Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilized tooth from more ...

Was Caligula misunderstood? New research shows the Roman emperor likely knew more about medicinal plants than historians once believed ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

The flip-flop's history stretches much further than Y2K beachwear or TikTok fashion hacks. Its earliest ancestor dates back ...

An ancient rock engraving in the Lower Nile Valley may offer a rare glimpse into the origin of Egyptian kings. The art panel ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...