A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

The Fascination with Neanderthals Begins For many, the name Neanderthals conjures images of hairy, robust humans who walked ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

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

A historian believes he has determined Jack the Ripper's identity through a DNA match of a shawl found at the scene of one of ...

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fuelled ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Joris Peters, co-corresponding author, Professor of Paleoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine at LMU Munich and Director of the State Collection for Paleoanatomy ...

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...