Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute have found that Neanderthal DNA in some of us may affect how our skin ...

An interdisciplinary study published in Nature reconstructs over 2,000 years of population history in Argentina's Uspallata ...

Ancient DNA recovered from the floor of the North Sea shows that the lost land of Doggerland was covered in temperate forests and supported large land mammals during the Ice Age, long before it ...

A study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution—a discovery that could pave the way for more precise ...

A team of scientist dug up a quarry in Casablanca, Morocco, and what they found could be humanity's ancient ancestor that has confounded science for decades.

Colossal Biosciences’ CEO says its work follows a ‘moral obligation’ while critics say it’s ‘tech bro’ hype that could undermine conservation ...

A tiny object from an Oregon cave is pulling archaeologists back into one of the oldest and most contested chapters in American history.

Using cutting-edge ancient DNA analysis, scientists have found evidence of trees like oak, elm, and hazel growing on this now-submerged landscape over 16,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than ...

Two fossil skulls found in central China are prompting fresh debate over when they lived – and where they belong in the human family tree.

Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more well-rounded diet to survive.

Key points A multinational research team has completed a milestone scientific mission to Antarctica aboard CSIRO research ...