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

Tests on the 1,000-year-old York Gospels uncovered traces of sheeppox virus in parchment made from calves or goats, not sheep.

A team working in a Siberian cave recently discovered a previously unknown bovine species that dates back to the last ice age ...

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 ...

Humans and domesticated animals have lived together for millennia, and this relationship has shaped their destinies in ...

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

Announced July 28, 2026] Records left in the bones of Jomon and Yayoi people—How much can we read about the 'history of food' ...

Colossal Biosciences brought back 20 key segments of extinct dire wolf DNA into living, breathing, wolf pups—and the tech ...

Ancient DNA shows how inbreeding, hunting and habitat loss wiped out Scandinavia's aurochs, the wild ancestors of modern cattle.

Scientists studying a 1,000-year-old Christian manuscript have discovered DNA traces of an ancient disease. The York Gospels, ...

The genetic code is usually described as an orderly language, read one letter after another in precise three-letter units.

A new archaeological discovery suggests that people in present-day Georgia have feasted with cacao for 1,000 years ...