By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

Around 5,000 years ago, humans discovered that they could domesticate animals. So, as it were, they adopted animals like cows ...

The Neanderthal DNA found in modern human genomes has long raised questions about ancient interbreeding. New studies offer a timeline of when that occurred and when ancient humans left Africa.

The oldest known sample of the smallpox-causing variola virus has been found within the DNA of a 17th-century child mummy found in a crypt beneath a Lithuanian church. CNN values your feedback 1.

An early wave of modern human ancestors interbred with Neanderthals between 470,000 and 220,000 years ago, a new DNA discovery from an ancient Neanderthal thigh bone suggests.

Scientists in China found a fossil from a giant panda that lived 22,000 years ago. Until they excavated the fossil, reassembled it and analyzed its mitochondrial DNA, biologists had no idea this ...

Ancient DNA is peeling back layers of the mystery surrounding modern humans’ trysts with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago. Anthropologists have long known that the groups interbred ...