Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...

Altogether, they reconstructed 11 ancient herpesvirus genomes. The oldest came from a young girl found in southern Italy who ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Malaria is often considered a tropical disease, but data hidden in historical human remains has shed new light on the parasite's world travels. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

As anyone who’s spent time in the saddle knows, riding a horse can be hard on your body. But can it change the way your skeleton looks? The answer, according to archaeologists from the University of ...

Buried for 4,500 years in Egypt's scorching sands, a ceramic pot preserved a laborer's skeleton that now upends long-held views of ancient isolation. DNA from this Old Kingdom man reveals genetic ties ...

Ancient bones can surprise anyone who assumes the past always lines up neatly. Scientists pulled fragments of DNA from people who lived on the Bogotá Altiplano thousands of years ago, and the results ...

As anyone who’s spent time in the saddle knows, riding a horse can be hard on your body. But can it change the way your skeleton looks? The answer, according to archaeologists from CU Boulder: It’s ...

A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 11 of Aging-US on November 26, 2025, titled “Epigenetic aging ...