DNA from a 7,100-year-old woman in Yunnan reveals a ghost lineage linked to Tibetan ancestry and early Austroasiatic populations, shedding light on East Asia's ancient genetic diversity.

Beneath the surface of present-day western Honduras lie the ruins of Copán—an archaeological site that once stood as a vital ...

Researchers found that changes in the pla gene copy number in Yersinia pestis affected plague virulence and host survival.

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

A study of more than 100 genomes from people who lived in ancient China has unmasked a "ghost" in their midst.

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

A groundbreaking genetic study has uncovered a Neanderthal population in France that remained completely isolated for 50,000 ...

A reference genome of the near-extinct northern white rhinoceros can indicate the quality of rhino stem cells that can ...

Modern humans were essentially like waves crashing on a beach, slowly but steadily eroding the beach away.” With this vivid ...