A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

From ancient hybrid humans to older-than-expected fossils, 2021 delivered several discoveries that reshaped the human ...

Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum – the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Scientists believe that recent analysis of a find from the 1970's can offer us insights into the lives of ancient humans.

Ancient handprints found on cave walls in Sulawesi, Indonesia, dating back over 67,800 years, may represent the oldest rock art studied to date. The stencils, created by blowing pigment over hands, ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analysed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural ...

Heartworm disease is caused by the parasite Dirofilaria immitis. It is spread to dogs by mosquitoes and can be fatal. Adult ...