An ancient DNA analysis of the remains of several mastodons, including those which roamed along the Pacific and Atlantic ...

Scientists confirmed genetic continuity in Leonardo da Vinci’s male descendants. Work is underway to compare ancient remains and possibly recover his DNA. For more than five hundred years, Leonardo da ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Columbian mammoths in Mexico are genetically different from those in the U.S. and Canada, surprise DNA study reveals.

Here is a breakdown of what you need to know about this important Ancient DNA discovery - and how it relates to the ... The most common Haplogroups among Native Americans are A, B, C, and D, and these ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient humans undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of miles of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world of the Americas. Now, a new study led by the ...

A University of Oregon associate professor has been removed from the Native American and Indigenous Studies program after a report by an external watchdog group raised questions about his Native ...

New research has thrown light on one of the world's greatest genetic oddities - a DNA marker which shows up in Europe and ...

The Native American organization, The Wyoming Trail Council of Pennsylvania’s Native Americans, will be hosting a Native American Festival and PowWow on that will run from 10 a.m. until a time to be ...

Stone hearth at the Blackburn Vannoy Estate and Farm, Fleetwood, North Carolina Artifacts uncovered at the Blackburn Vannoy Estate and Farm include (left to right) a rhyolite spearpoint, a quartz ...

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 ...