First discovered in 2010, the ‘Red Lady of El Mirón’ is an ochre-coated skeleton that provides a glimpse into human life ...

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Researchers from The University of Manchester—in collaboration with the Universities of Granada, Lund, and Oslo—have ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

New research has used DNA found in sediment to reveal new information about the human and animal populations that preceded ...

In recent years, experts have discovered that mushrooms share more DNA with humans than plants. That’s right: fungi are actually closely related to animals and share distinct characteristics ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...

Remnants of ancient viral pandemics in the form of viral DNA sequences embedded in our genomes are still ... The most famous HERV embedded in human and animal genomes, syncytin, is a gene derived from ...

important animal to study to uncover novel pathways ... work involves sequencing bat genomes and comparing them with human DNA, to identify relevant targets which might be applicable to our ...

The technique does not cut a patient’s DNA, like gene-editing therapies ... in community projects for improved conditions for humans and animals alike. Through the ASP’s partnership with ...