Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...
The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...
The moment a creature dies, its DNA begins to break down. Half of it degrades every 521 years on average. By about 6.8 million years, even under ideal preservation conditions in cold, stable ...
A mammoth tooth reveals bacterial DNA from 1.1 million years ago, offering new clues about diseases and hidden ecosystems in ...
In a spectacular bit of science, a group of scientists has sequenced the DNA from the femur of a man who died 45,000 years ago. The femur they studied is over 20 times older than this 2000 year old ...
The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances ...
Scientists were able to isolate the oldest human DNA yet, they announced today, but the 400,000-year-old genome sequence actually prompted more questions than it answered. Spain's a long way from ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - DNA from ancient human faeces found in a cave in Oregon provides biological verification that people were in North America 14,000 years ago, researchers said on Thursday. The ...