A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of ...

Homo sapiens has existed for at least 300,000 years, but its exact origin is still unknown. Some theories say that it evolved in East Africa about 50,000 years ago and expanded sou ...

A 13-year study of DNA samples collected from the 4,000-year-old Shimao site, a complex of gigantic prehistoric ruins on the ...

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan ...

The Faroe Islands, an archipelago between Norway and Iceland, were once believed to have been settled by Viking explorers in the mid-9th century CE. Thanks to new analysis of ancient sheep DNA, the ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...

DNA of ‘vampire squid from hell’ helps explain how octopuses evolved - With its unusual combination of features, the deep sea ...

Diana Fernandes Margao Scientist Carino Gurjao, whose father hails from Agassaim and mother from Ambelim, was named in the ...