June 9, 2022 — A new study combining archaeological, historical and bioarchaeological data provides new insights into the early Islamic period in modern-day Syria. The research team was planning to focus on a much ...

June 9, 2022 — Researchers now reveal that nature's storage solution first evolved in ancient microbes living on Earth between one and two billion years ...

June 9, 2022 — A tortoise from a Galápagos species long believed extinct has been found alive. Fernanda, named after her Fernandina Island home, is the first of ...

June 6, 2022 — A new study is providing an enhanced look at the intertwined evolutionary histories of polar bears and brown bears. Becoming ...

June 2, 2022 — Modern humans are characterized by their prosociality, a broad term that encompasses intraspecies empathy, social tolerance, cooperation and altruism. These facets of social cognition have been ...

May 17, 2022 — What links a finger bone and some fossil teeth found in a cave in the remote Altai Mountains of Siberia to a single tooth found in a cave in the limestone landscapes of tropical Laos? The answer to ...

May 19, 2022 — Scientists have explored the importance of sea travel in prehistory by examining the genomes of ancient Maltese humans and comparing these with the ...

May 12, 2022 — The genetic origins of the first agriculturalists in the Neolithic period long seemed to lie in the Near East. A new study shows that the first farmers actually represented a mixture of Ice Age ...

May 11, 2022 — The first whole genome sequences of the ancient people of Uruguay provide a genetic snapshot of Indigenous populations of the region before they were decimated by a series of European military ...