Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian ...

Well-preserved genomes show a “rare” leprosy strain thriving in ancient Chile, rewriting when and where Hansen’s Disease ...