Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

A major genetic study suggests that all living humans may trace their ancestry back to three African hunter-gatherer ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Ancient DNA is finally putting hard numbers on a mystery that has trailed humanity for millennia: when our most familiar ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

New DNA research reveals the woman long believed to be the first Black Briton was actually white and from Roman-era southern ...

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...

The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural ...

Africa has long been known as the cradle of humanity. Fossils, tools and genetics all point there. Yet the deeper story of how the first modern humans lived, moved and mixed has stayed blurry. Too ...

The curious skeleton of a Roman-era individual in Britain, nicknamed the Beachy Head Woman, is not who we thought she was.

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.