The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that quietly slipped into our chromosomes and never left. By tracing this viral ...

A genetic study has unveiled that two Neanderthals who lived approximately 10,000 years apart in Siberia's famous Denisova Cave were distant relatives. This remarkable discovery provides the fourth ...

A study incorporating fresh DNA data and archaeological evidence has revealed that the last Neanderthals in Europe experienced a massive population turnover. The research shows that late Neanderthals ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

New research shows ancient plague may have spread through livestock, not fleas, based on DNA from a 4,000-year-old sheep.

Growing research – including ancient DNA technology – is changing the picture of human evolution and how our ancestors ...

A ground-breaking study has traced thousands of conserved regulatory elements back 300 million years, revealing deep principles of plant genome evolution – a discovery that could pave the way for more ...

You’ve heard of deep space, but what about deep time? Today’s geneticists and evolutionary biologists can extend their investigations further back in time than ever imagined. Still, many mysteries ...

Ancient DNA from dogs and wolves has been analyzed to build a picture of when dogs were domesticated and how they evolved ...