A team of scientists teamed up to date and identify the collection of more than 6,000 fossils, placing them between 131,000 ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

The Manchester Museum in England is inviting guests to share feedback on Asru, an ancient Egyptian woman whose body was ...

When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

The fragments of this hominin face were discovered in 2022 inside a cave called Sima del Elefante, where some of Europe's ...

Scientists studying ancient human remains uncovered in Colombia have found that the people they were researching have no ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

Two years after the discovery of a major, long-buried indigenous village on a Brickell redevelopment site prompted a major ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...