A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the animals have evolved a DNA repair mechanism that could explain their ...

Diseases started jumping from animals to humans at least 6,500 years ago, researchers found in a new study of ancient DNA. After analyzing ancient DNA from 1,313 prehistoric humans from Europe and ...

Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts ...

New research reveals how ancient pathogens, including plague and leprosy, entered human populations over 37,000 years.

But evolution has not moved quickly enough to conceal animals from human-surveillance technologies, which are undergoing ...

The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?

An innovative use of skin cells could provide a route for same-sex couples or women with fertility problems to have children ...

Some say the oldest known human settlement is Uruk, in modern-day Iraq. Others say Jericho, in Palestine. Wherever it is, it must be the place where synurbization—the process of wildlife adapting to ...