In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global ...

Fragments of a partial skull unearthed in a cave in northern Spain have revealed a previously unknown population of ancient ...

Ancient DNA reveals that Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa, providing the earliest proof of prehistoric ...

The new study showed that the frequency of people with dark skin was still high in parts of Europe until the Copper Age (also ...

A prehistoric creature has just provided a stunning ... This marks the first time science has been able to fully replicate the DNA of an ancient animal from a fossil. The paper, published July ...

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic.

A woman from a group of hunter-gatherers died about 19,000 years ago and was buried in a cave in northern Spain. Archaeologists began exploring the cave in 1996, uncovering evidence of prehistoric ...

The new findings contradict previous assertions that Ashkenazi mitochondrial lineages originated in the Near East, or from mass conversions to Judaism in the Khazar kingdom, an empire in the north ...

U ntil relatively recently, the combination of light skin, blue eyes, and blonde hair was something of a rarity among ...

A Sweden-born scientist who resides in Leipzig, Germany, has been awarded Monday the 2022 Medicine Nobel Prize for his findings on prehistoric DNA. Svante Pääbo, currently aged 67, discovered in ...

"Five years post-‘Jurassic World Dominion,' an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough." ...