If they have no ancestors or descendants, then who are they?

At the height of the world’s first pandemic, the people of the ancient Roman city of Jerash buried hundreds of bodies on top of each other within days, a new archaeological study of a mass grave ...

Herpesviruses and humans are old companions. To help uncover our relationship with this ubiquitous gang of viruses, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of herpesviruses from ancient human ...

A little known scientific experiment saw ancient human remains launched beyond Earth to study how extreme space conditions affect fossilized bone. Researchers examined radiation exposure, microgravity ...

HANOI: Vietnamese scientists have, for the first time, successfully decoded mitochondrial genomes from ancient human bone samples dating back around 2,000 years, marking a significant breakthrough in ...

Electron micrograph of negatively stained Parvovirus B19 in blood. Each virus particle is about 25 to 30nM in diameter. Credit: GrahamColm/CC BY 3.0 Electron micrograph of negatively stained ...

Workers installing a sewer line in the Scottish Highlands uncovered a 6th-century burial site along with Iron Age roundhouses ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

According to the researchers, dark teeth alone are not enough to prove intentional cosmetic treatment. Teeth can turn brown ...