An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, the University of East Anglia and the Max Planck ...

A new study reveals that farming in Argentina’s Uspallata Valley was adopted by local hunter-gatherers rather than introduced by outside populations. Centuries later, a stressed group of maize-heavy ...

Scientists are tracing back the history of dogs using the oldest genes from the species ever studied ...

A new study of ancient DNA from 46 individuals buried across thousands of years in Argentina’s Uspallata Valley has found ...

Geneticists are pushing back the timeline of when people first domesticated dogs in Europe. Using the DNA from over 200 ...

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million ...

The discovery of the oldest ever dog DNA suggests they have been our best friends for nearly 16,000 years – 5,000 years ...

The findings challenge prevailing domestication timelines in anthropology.

California wildlife officials linked the coyote euthanized after attacking a 4-year-old boy near his family's home in Carson ...

Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected microbial relationship that could help explain differences in the severity of a major ...

Images available on request*In the largest study of canid remains to date, new genetic techniques allowed two thirds of analysed remains to be ...