The York Gospels, a 1,000-year-old manuscript, revealed ancient sheeppox virus DNA preserved in its parchment pages, stunning ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers in East Asia are remarkably similar, genetically, to modern people living in the area. Unlike what ...

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Ancient DNA shows the extinct “American cheetah,” Miracinonyx trumani, was actually the sister species of modern pumas, with ...

A team led by the University of Tartu has reconstructed 26 ancient genomes of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis from 11 ...

M. trumani lived across North America during the Pleistocene, from about 2.5 million to 16,000 years ago. Fossils show that ...

A DNA analysis conducted on soil samples found within a Turkish cave system has revealed evidence of an ancient charcoal medicine which scientists believe was used to treat digestive health issues ...

An ancient fragment of bone discovered in the Crimean cave of Starosele is changing what we think about how and where Neanderthals migrated. The fragment, now known as Star 1, turned out to be ...

Sheeppox affected European sheep herds for centuries in the medieval period – but they weren’t the oldest viral genomes we ...

Research on ancient DNA is surging, but how can scientists ensure that human remains of irreplaceable significance are preserved? This is the question investigated by an international research team ...

Ancient DNA shows that adults and children buried together in medieval Sweden were often not members of the same immediate family, suggesting that burial choices reflected more than biological kinship ...

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