A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the ...

Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat ...

Ancient DNA from Iceland’s first centuries of habitation is forcing historians and geneticists to redraw the map of who ...

Earlier, in 2018, when scientists sequenced the DNA extracted from Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, a 10,000-year-old male ...

Around 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Bronze Age, a mass migration of peoples from the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe poured into Europe. Called the Yamnaya, these horse herders introduced ...

Jan 10 (Reuters) - DNA obtained from the bones and teeth of ancient Europeans who lived up to 34,000 years ago is providing insight into the origin of the often-disabling neurological disease multiple ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA helps explain ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA helps explain why northern Europeans have a higher risk of multiple sclerosis than other ancestries: It’s a genetic legacy of horseback-riding cattle herders who swept into ...

More than 1,600 ancient genomes have helped to trace the roots of a host of genetic traits found in modern Europeans. The genomes suggest that many characteristics — including a heightened risk for ...