A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas ...

DNA offers new clues about ancient human societies.

New DNA evidence challenges the timeline of human migration to Australia.

Dire wolves vanished more than 12,000 years ago but science has brought them back, and now, the massive creatures made famous ...

Jurassic World Rebirth is the franchise’s latest argument for its own extinction.

A new study sequencing the first complete ancient Egyptian genome reveals the 4,500-year-old man had significant ancestry ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the full genome of a 4,800-year-old Egyptian man. The DNA reveals North African ...

Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster legacy turned dinosaurs into pop cultural icons, sparked a scientific awakening, and helped ...

A newly published research paper has reignited debate about when humans first set foot in Australia, proposing a later date ...

Genetic studies point to female-centered living arrangements in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Yet, power may not have rested solely ...

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