New DNA evidence reveals that the cats of ancient China were not what they seemed.

Ancient bones can surprise anyone who assumes the past always lines up neatly. Scientists pulled fragments of DNA from people who lived on the Bogotá Altiplano thousands of years ago, and the results ...

Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

Cats didn’t become house pets because humans needed them. They didn’t herd animals, pull carts, or guard property.

7,000-year-old DNA from Sahara skeletons reveals a mysterious lineage with no connection to any modern populations.

The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

Archaeologists working in the Southern Ural Mountains have uncovered an unexpected clue about how an ancient plague once moved across Eurasia. A tiny sheep tooth found at the Bronze Age site of Arkaim ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

A leopard cat, which is under second-class state protection in China, is seen in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on ...