Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future? Eske Willerslev was on a tour of Montreal’s Redpath Museum, a Victorian-era ...

Analysis of ancient proteins may fill in the gaps of human evolution left by the decomposition of DNA. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed 6,000-year-old human skeletons in Colombia that possess a DNA profile unlike any other known to science. This unique genetic lineage, which has ...

Altogether, they reconstructed 11 ancient herpesvirus genomes. The oldest came from a young girl found in southern Italy who ...

Learn about the overlap between archaic humans that once lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the modern humans ...