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Dec 19, 2025 - A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as “junk” plays a crucial role in the earliest...

Dec 19, 2025 - The modern house cat reached China in the 7th century. Before that, another cat — the leopard cat — hunted the rodents in ancient Chinese settlements.

An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague. The findings show zoonotic...

Apr 3, 2025 - The area was home to early human communities, including 15 women and children archaeologists found buried ...

Dec 19, 2025 - An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from...

Emory scholars study genetics of deep past to better understand modern-day populations of the Americas

Dec 19, 2025 - Italian centenarians have a higher proportion of DNA inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers, and this has been found to be why they live longer than others.

Dec 10, 2025 - Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west, study finds.

Apr 19, 2023 - As wooly mammoths grazed frigid Siberian steppes for more than half a million years, they evolved increasingly fluffy fur, large fat deposits, and smaller...

Feb 21, 2025 - We can now retrieve and sequence genes that are millions of years old. Scientists hope they can be used to improve our lives.

Dec 3, 2025 - The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, according to a new genomics study.

Sep 23, 2025 - As the only national university in the country, the University of the Philippines (UP) System takes pride in being the pioneer in higher education through...

Dec 19, 2025 - Genes passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe more than 10,000 years ago may be related to exceptional longevity in Italian centenarians...

Dec 8, 2025 - For thousands of years, an ethnic group in southern China placed their dead in "hanging coffins" fixed onto cliff faces or placed within mountain...

Scientists have finally uncovered direct genetic evidence of Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — in a mass grave in Jerash,...

Nov 28, 2025 - The domestic cat has a long, complex and uncertain history. Ancient DNA is making its origin story clearer.

Dec 16, 2025 - Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were wild cats.

Ancient DNA from a Stone Age burial site in Sweden shows that families 5,500 years ago were more complex than expected. Many individuals buried together were...

Cheetahs vanished from Saudi Arabia half a century ago. Now long-dead mummified big cats may help herald their return.

Jan 19, 2024 - A century ago, it wasn’t obvious where humans got their start. But decades of fossil discoveries, reinforced by genetic studies, have pointed to Africa as...

May 7, 2024 - Life on Earth emerged as early as 4 billion years ago. It is the product of the codes stored in DNA. Now, we are repurposing DNA to store other forms of...

Nov 24, 2025 - Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.