Pigment sampling at a claviform rock art figure in Tebellín, Spain. (Alberto Martínez Villa/Bossoms Mesa et al., Nat. Commun., 2026) Rock art links us to our bygone ancestors in a uniquely humanistic ...

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

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

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 ...

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

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

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...