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Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

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Ancient Sarcophagus Unearthed in Israel Portrays an Epic Drinking Contest Between the God Dionysus and the Mythical Hero Hercules Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind ...