New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.
Created for Mary I, the first woman to rule England in her own right, the book is "perhaps the most significant artifact of ...
An international study published in Current Biology presents the results of the analysis of ancient mitochondrial DNA ...
Archaeologists have debated the nature of this so-called Neolithic decline, but ancient DNA extracted from a collective tomb ...
The latest genetic research from Stajnia Cave in southern Poland has successfully reconstructed the genetic profile of the oldest known group of Neanderthals in Central-Eastern Europe. The findings, ...
Spanish researchers say they identified 124 shipwrecks dating from the ancient world to WWI in the 29-square-mile Bay of ...
Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after their owners ...
Understanding of Neanderthal prehistory in Europe is changing rapidly, thanks to several sets of remains discovered in Poland ...
The Milky Way galaxy’s fuzzy star-forming edge has finally been mapped, as researchers identify the major region of stellar ...
Scientists have found that a major Atlantic ocean current system may weaken by about half by the end of this century, far ...