This raises the question of what's the oldest DNA from a human or close human relative. Humans evolved largely in geographic areas that are hot and damp, where DNA preservation is poor. This limits ...

A research team reconstructed the genome of an extinct horse species through an open-air extraction at the archaeological ...

Study of Maria Branyas Morera found a youth-leaning gut, low inflammation, rare genes, and slower DNA-based aging—offering ...

The DNA belonged to an extinct horse genus and is the oldest genome ever collected from an open-air site. Here’s what you’ll ...

Maria Branyas Morera, the world's oldest person at 117, intrigued scientists with her exceptional longevity. A recent study ...

Long before humans built computers, nature built a better one. Razan Al Mubarak sees biodiversity as the planet’s original ...

The Theopetra Cave in central Greece housed a stone wall, which could be the oldest surviving structure ever found, that was ...

There's no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have a ...

One of those people was María Branyas Morera, from Spain. Between early 2023 and mid-2024, she held the title of the world’s oldest living person. She died at 117 years and 168 days. Scientists ...

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary ...

Now, five decades later, the woman long known by investigators as Swamp Mountain Doe has a name: Marion Vinetta Nagle McWhorter.

In a landmark study, scientists have reconstructed ancient DNA from Burzahom, a Neolithic site in Kashmir, revealing genetic ...