Excavations on Peru's coast reveal pre-Inca parrot husbandry, radiocarbon-dated to 1100-1450, and long-distance transport ...

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever been detected in human remains, until now. For decades, it has been unclear ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Discover the fascinating history of cat domestication and genetic analysis results, revealing how ancient Egyptians played a pivotal role in shaping modern cats. Scientists discovered the remains of a ...

When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.