Researchers have identified the long-mysterious Toronto “subway deer” as a previously unknown extinct deer related to the ...

Ancient DNA shows Doggerland beneath the North Sea supported forests and wildlife 16,000 years ago, revealing a milder Ice ...

Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). A tiny stash of asteroid dust may help answer one of science’s oldest questions ...

A new genetic study published in the journal Cell is filling in some important details about the earliest inhabitants of ...

A landmass that once connected Britain to mainland Europe had temperate forests that could have sustained Stone Age people ...

The approvals, including for the 11th phase of excavations at Keeladi, come at a time when archaeological findings in Tamil Nadu have acquired political overtones.

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from ...

Ancient DNA reveals that the Goths of eastern Europe, some of whom would ultimately sack the city of Rome, may have been a ...

A tiny object from an Oregon cave is pulling archaeologists back into one of the oldest and most contested chapters in ...

Using cutting-edge ancient DNA analysis, scientists have found evidence of trees like oak, elm, and hazel growing on this now-submerged landscape over 16,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than ...

More than 2.3 million ancient genetic switches discovered in plants reveal how key growth controls endured 300 million years ...