For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why.

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

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Learn how ancient DNA uncovered Ice Age forests on sunken Doggerland and revealed a landscape that once linked Britain to mainland Europe.

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

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. A new ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

New research reveals that ancient interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals shaped our modern human DNA - especially on ...

FILE: Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man, left, and woman at the Neanderthal museum in Mettmann, Germany, March 2009 ...

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

Dental calculus is the richest known source of ancient DNA in the archaeological record. That stubborn mineralized plaque, once treated as little more than an unpleasant byproduct of life, has become ...