Understanding the differences between Neanderthal and modern human faces sheds light on our own evolution.

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

It has been determined that they contain ten times less Neanderthal genetic material compared to human populations outside Africa, although in a slightly higher proportion than contemporary ...

Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

Sahara Desert teemed with life during African Humid Period. Scientists have reconstructed the genetic profile of a population ...