Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have voyaged across the Mediterranean to Northern Africa around 8,500 years ago, new ...

A wave of ancient DNA studies published in Nature has forced a sharp revision of how scientists understand the peopling of ...

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

For decades, scientists believed that domestic cats arrived in Europe alongside early human farmers migrating from Asia. However, groundbreaking genetic research now shows that cats actually spread ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hippos lived at the Upper Rhine in the same time frame as mammoths. In the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen a hippo reconstruction meets a ...

Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming.

Because cremation dominates the Urnfield period, the Late Bronze Age has long been a “blind spot” for biomolecular research. The new study published in Nature tackled that gap by focusing on ...