The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?

A groundbreaking study of ancient DNA reveals that all living humans descend from just three African hunter-gatherer populations around 50,000 years ago. Fossils and tools show these groups created ...

While headlines focus on bringing back the woolly mammoth, the most significant impact of this research lies in its immediate… Read More ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Malaria is one of the world's most widespread and deadliest parasitic diseases. But some people may have natural protection ...

Sloths may seem like quirky tree-dwellers today, but their past reveals a dynasty of giants that once roamed the Americas.

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...