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Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Ancient DNA solved the case.

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

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The first historically recorded pandemic is believed to have struck the walled city of Jirash, in what is now modern-day ...

Scientists have identified the world’s oldest rock art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Sulawesi—using uranium-series dating ...