A remarkably preserved, mummified reptile from 289 million years ago is rewriting what we know about how animals first ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

Ancient DNA from a tomb near Paris reveals a shocking prehistoric reset: one population vanished and was replaced by ...

Increasing evidence suggests that our species emerged through interactions between populations living in different parts of ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Transposable elements have proliferated in the bacterium Enterococcus faecium, altering its metabolism and genome structure.