The mystery, which has evaded scientists for more than five decades, can be explained with rather simple chemistry, according ...

Scientists have deciphered the genome of the bacterium behind the world's first recorded pandemic that swept through the eastern Mediterranean about 1,500 years ago. Researchers found Yersinia pestis, ...

After several failed attempts, the researchers managed to extract genetic material from the fossilized cranium — nicknamed Dragon Man — linking it to an enigmatic group of early humans known ...

A skeleton found in a 4,500-year-old ceramic pot has rewritten the history of Ancient Egypt. A DNA test on the man’s bones has upended how historians could view the rise of Ancient Egyptian ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete Denisovan fossil to date.