Pigment sampling at a claviform rock art figure in Tebellín, Spain. (Alberto Martínez Villa/Bossoms Mesa et al., Nat. Commun.

A new analysis of ancient DNA has found that Neanderthal genomes contain 62 percent more ancestry from anatomically modern ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

DNA preservation on cave walls is highly variable, but scientists say their work is an important step on the path toward ...

In a first, scientists recovered human DNA from ancient cave paintings, a breakthrough that could open new ways to ...

DNA from ancient humans has been found on a prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls, demonstrating the potential to one ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

Animals that hibernate are incredibly resilient. They can spend months without food or water, muscles refusing to atrophy, body temperature dropping to near freezing as their metabolism and brain ...

The DNA in a single cup of water can track wildlife, monitor pollution and survey pathogens in waterways and their ...