Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green Sahara" 7,000 years ago.

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

The authors sequenced ancient ... North African source was related to the first Homo sapiens that migrated from Africa to Eurasia — those said to have ‘out-of-Africa’ ancestry.

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep ... The discovery was possible thanks to a wider project led by Hua to map what lies beneath North America using a high-resolution seismic imaging ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...

DNA from the two mummies revealed that the never-before-seen North African ... Neanderthal ancestry that could only have been acquired outside of Africa, as Neanderthals lived in Eurasia.

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...

The magnetic north pole is once again on the move—this time inching ever closer to Siberia. Scientists have updated the World Magnetic Model as the magnetic north pole shifts closer to Siberia ...