What is that how can a tooth survive the years and bear any intelligible mark of the molecules on its side when bone and other soft tissue have long since decayed? In the case of ancient-DNA, teeth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are fleshing out their understanding of Neanderthals by analyzing a Neanderthal tooth. The dental analysis is leading ...

Ancient teeth from Russia have revealed the secrets of the plague, dating back 3,800 years. Researchers successfully ...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands ...

In 1898, two male lions terrorized an encampment of bridge builders on the Tsavo River in Kenya. The lions, which were massive and maneless, crept into the camp at night, raided the tents and dragged ...

Scientists have reconstructed the genetic code of a strain of bacteria that caused one of the most deadly pandemics in history nearly 1,500 years ago. They did it by finding the skeletons of people ...

Scientists are fleshing out their understanding of Neanderthals by analyzing a Neanderthal tooth. The dental analysis is leading scientists to believe that Neanderthals were more advanced than ...