"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

The discovery, made in a remote village in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest interior, included seven urns, two of which were larger ...

A new study reveals that Stone Age humans in Germany operated a 'fat factory' to extract nutrients from animal bones.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

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