Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves ...

Johns Hopkins and other BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) researchers have enhanced a cellular road map of how the ...

Recent studies of ancient dog DNA reveal insights into the origins and evolution of dogs, highlighting their long-standing companionship with humans.

A new study published in Nature has uncovered the earliest genetic evidence for the existence of dogs. Using ancient DNA analysis, researchers identified dogs at archaeological si ...

Images available on request*In the largest study of canid remains to date, new genetic techniques allowed two thirds of analysed remains to be ...

A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that while the COVID-19 virus ...

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 ...

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

Paintings from ancient Egypt show the harvesting of grapes and the making of wine. Mesopotamian murals illustrate elites rai ...

A study incorporating new DNA data and archaeological evidence has shown that the last Neanderthals in Europe experienced a ...

Neanderthal DNA explains how human faces form, tardigrades struggle in Martian soil, new tech tracking monarch butterflies ...