Louis XIV, who was the King of France and the longest reigning monarch in European history, died on Sept. 1, 1715 ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

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

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

The Jomon people—who eventually settled in what is now Japan—share little, if any, genetic connection to the Denisovan population that’s spread throughout Eurasia.

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

When you have submitted your sample, you will receive your results in four weeks. This will include an ethnicity estimate, as ...

Thousands of years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers roamed the steppes of southern Russia, fishing in its rivers and hunting across its vast grasslands. They lived in a world without settlements, ...

U.S. scientists analyzed the DNA of numerous modern-day dog breeds, and found that two-thirds of pet dogs have traceable wolf ...