New research pushes the first genetic evidence of dogs back by 5,000 years and suggests that hunter-gatherer groups may have ...

Some bones indicate that the hunter-gatherers of the time fed dogs fish. Their remains were also treated in similar ways to ...

Scientists have discovered an ancient relative of all living apes in northern Egypt, highlighting how the hunt for human ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about ...

The close relationship between humans and dogs has been ongoing for more than 14,000 years, a new study has discovered.

Two studies published in Nature on March 25, 2026, have extracted and analyzed ancient DNA from more than 200 dog and wolf ...

New research has revealed that ancient people in southern Arabia dined on an apex predator — sharks. The study, recently published in the journal Antiquity, centers on a tomb in Wadi Nafūn, an ...

NEW YORK — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don’t know much about who got with whom, or why. A new genetic ...

Scientists study physical evidence such as cave art, hand-crafted tools, and skull structures to infer cognitive and speech capabilities ...

Dogs were our friends and guardians thousands of years before the end of the last ice age, with new studies identifying a ...