Early humans in Ethiopia survived the Toba supervolcano eruption by shifting to river foods, revealing how drought shaped ...

New research shows ancient plague may have spread through livestock, not fleas, based on DNA from a 4,000-year-old sheep.

For centuries, we’ve explored this question, sometimes with very biased answers. Find out what modern research says about ...

Discover new clues about how our ancient relatives disappeared from time.

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

Millions of people have explored ancient Greece's golden ratio, a magical number that has fascinated experts and amateurs for ...

The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have ...

The arc of human technological progress can be described as a long campaign against the limits imposed by time. Paleolithic ...

A groundbreaking interdisciplinary study has unveiled the dramatic 2,000-year history of a population living at the southern edge of the ancient Andean farming frontier. By analyzing ancient DNA from ...

The findings of a new study by a Charles Sturt University researcher and colleagues challenge a long-standing assumption used ...

As far as we can go back in human history always violence was at the core of human action, with sporadic moments of enlightenment brought by Messengers to ...

Credit: Geología Valdivia New findings from Chile challenge a foundational idea about the earliest settlement of the Americas ...