Prehistoric plant DNA is being dug up from deep below the Arctic to see if it can help modern-day crops cope with the effects of climate change. Researchers from Heriot-Watt University in ...

A new study suggests that the DNA some modern Japanese people have inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers may increase BMI.

It is one of the richest burials found in an El Argar, a settlement dating back to 2200 to 1550 B.C.E. (ASOME/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (CN) — By analyzing the DNA of ancient Iberians who ...

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 ...

combine results from two newly discovered prehistoric palm fossils with DNA from global palm collections to gain new insights into the origins of biodiversity in one of the most species-rich ...

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 ...

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 ...

The findings include the first complete prehistoric human skeletons uncovered in Israel since the 1960s, which researchers say are among the best preserved in the world. “This is one of the most ...

In the Iron Gates gorge of the Danube, in present-day Serbia, lies Lepenski Vir, an archaeological site that has been key to ...