We can’t blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore. This artist’s illustration, by Kevin Wilson, shows how the ancient […]
Category: ancient DNA
Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland
Sometimes, new data raises more questions than it answers. Today, the North Pacific right whale is severely endangered, meaning that […]
Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird
Skip to content The species’s boundaries in North America seem to have been fairly fluid. We tend to lump all […]
We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew
It’s a Denisovan? Always has been. After years of mystery, we now know what at least one Denisovan looked like. […]
DNA links modern pueblo dwellers to Chaco Canyon people
A thousand years ago, the people living in Chaco Canyon were building massive structures of intricate masonry and locations as […]
Skull long thought to be Cleopatra’s sister’s was actually a young boy
Scientists have demonstrated that an ancient human skull excavated from a tomb at Ephesos was not that of Arsinoë IV, […]