Ancient DNA reveals that childhood viruses lived with humans for thousands of years, reshaping how we understand human and ...

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

Homo sapiens was basically infected by these viruses for all of its existence," the scientist added. As per the outlet, ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

When Matthias Meyer began studying the ancient DNA in the 400,000 year old fossils he found in the Sima de los Huesos, or Pit of Bones cave, deep beneath the Atapuerca mountains in Spain, he was ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

Learn how pigs spread across Pacific islands, what their DNA reveals about ancient human journeys, and why their legacy still ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Learn more about the people who once used Grotta della Monaca as a sacred burial site.