Genome analysis reveals that Neanderthals lived on the brink of extinction for 350,000 years in small populations.

Learn how ancient DNA shows Ibiza’s Islamic-era population spanned Europe, North Africa, and the Sahara — including evidence of leprosy.

Medieval Ibiza was far from a quiet Mediterranean backwater. New DNA evidence shows that the island was part of a dynamic ...

Ancient DNA from a medieval burial inside a Neolithic monument reveals unexpected ancestry links and hints that the site’s ...

Two new studies suggest that genetically stable dogs were living among humans in Europe by about 14,000 years ago.

New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

DNA reveals the unique story of a man buried in Menga whose roots lie in Iberia, Africa, and the Mediterranean a thousand ...

Fresh DNA sequencing from 302 strays exposes 390 unique genes near the plant, challenging everything we thought about ...

They traced his family back to 1331. Now, six DNA tests could finally confirm whose bones are in Leonardo da Vinci's grave.

The ATLAS Research Group at the University of Seville (HUM-694) is collaborating in an archaeogenomic study carried out by the UK universities of ...

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TUCSON, Ariz. — A Q-tip, a tissue and a pizza crust. To investigators, this seemingly innocuous trash was DNA-laden treasure, helping crack the cases of the University of Idaho murders, the Golden ...