The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA ...

Roughly one in every twelve letters of your genetic code comes from an ancient viral infection. These molecular hitchhikers have helped shape our species - and may still hold secrets about immunity, ...

The history of humanity is an intricate tapestry, whose threads not only belong to our own species but intertwine with those ...

Biochemical evidence suggests Norse people settled in Iceland almost 70 years before the accepted arrival date of the 870s, ...

A collaboration led by Max Delbrück Center and University of Bath has uncovered how ancient viral DNA controls a gene linked ...

Modern genetic studies show that up to 4% of human DNA comes from Neanderthals—and some of those ancient genes affect how our ...

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory found that Dicer, an ancient RNA-cutting protein shared by humans and yeast, ...

Modern humans inherited part of their ancestry from multiple, genetically distinct Denisovan groups through interbreeding ...

If you’ve ever been curious about what dingoes truly are and where they come from, you’ve landed on the right page. These wild dogs have been around Australia for thousands of years, but their story ...

Another surprising finding from this study concerns the ancient Jomon people from the Japanese archipelago and the ...

Learn how tardigrades are able to tolerate extreme radiation with a unique protein that unwinds their DNA.

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...