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

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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.

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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.

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.

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 ...