An international team of scientists representing Russia, Germany, and the United States have found a unique mechanism at work in the DNA of…
We may have a lot more to thank (or curse) our ancestors for than we realize. When the Black Death or the bubonic…
A “breakthrough” has been made in understanding the history of our planet. Studying ancient environmental DNA a team of researchers has now tracked…
Updated 15 July, 2022 - 18:54 Sahir Genome sequencing of a human Late Pleistocene Fossil in southwest China dating back around 14,000 years…
The biblical Levites were a group of people from the tribe of Levi set apart for religious service in ancient Israel. The most…
Achieving an historic and groundbreaking first, an international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany have…
Updated 2 August, 2023 - 14:58 Sahir Over 70 years after her severed skull was first discovered buried deep within a cave in…
While Neanderthals went extinct approximately 40,000 years ago, they left a legacy hidden inside the genetic codes of humans, in the form of…
For the dozen years between 1974 and 1986, he rained down terror across the state of California. He went by many names: the…
Updated 10 March, 2018 - 22:10 ashley cowie A clawed, flightless bird that went extinct in New Zealand in the late 13th century…
In an intriguing discovery, the remains of an African man who died just 350 years ago have been found buried in a prehistoric…
A new documentary series on the Travel Channel sets out to find Bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest. North America's fabled apelike creature has…