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

Earlier, in 2018, when scientists sequenced the DNA extracted from Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, a 10,000-year-old male ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...

Around 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Bronze Age, a mass migration of peoples from the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe poured into Europe. Called the Yamnaya, these horse herders introduced ...

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

For most of Europe’s history, the people who lived there did not resemble the pale figures often shown in history books. New ...

In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

The domestic cat has a long, complex and uncertain history. Ancient DNA is making its origin story clearer.

More than 1,600 ancient genomes have helped to trace the roots of a host of genetic traits found in modern Europeans. The genomes suggest that many characteristics — including a heightened risk for ...