DNA frozen for 2 million years paints a picture of an extinct ecosystem.
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A German town needed to relocate a medieval graveyard to build a parking garage. A positive side effect: Scientists got to sequence the DNA of Ashkenazi Jews who lived more than 600 years ago.
Ancient DNA from Neanderthal fossils in southern Siberia reveals a small community with close family ties – including a father and his teenage daughter.
Deep in the oceans dwell creatures that can evade many of the evolutionary drivers of life on land – and they remain seemingly unchanged through time.
Ancient DNA helps reveal the tangled branches of the human family tree. Not only did our ancestors live alongside other human species, they mated with them, too.
Thousands of ancient genomes have been sequenced to date. A Nobel Prize highlights tremendous opportunities for aDNA, as well as challenges related to rapid growth, equity and misinformation.
Historical accounts show the upokororo was once common in rivers across the country. It’s now officially extinct, but is there a chance survivors could still be found in remote waterways?
Only half of New Zealand’s roughly 4,000 mollusc species have been seen alive. Now geneticists can decode DNA from shells in museum collections to trace the life histories of extinct or rare species.
DNA from ancient eastern moa bones is unlocking the secrets of their survival during the last ice age, and providing lessons for today’s threatened species.
Biologists have used ancient DNA, preserved in fossil bones for millennia, to study the evolution of large species, but now they can employ it to study small animals like lizards and frogs.
A new study doubles the age of ancient DNA in sub-Saharan Africa, revealing how people moved, mingled and had children together over the last 50,000 years.
Studying ancient DNA in Africa is valuable for understanding human evolution, population migrations, and human history locally, regionally and globally.
The first ancient human DNA from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi — and the wider Wallacea islands group — sheds light on the early human history of the region.
By studying the DNA of people who lived in East Asia thousands of years ago, scientists are starting to untangle how the region was populated.
For decades, the extinction of passenger pigeons has been explained by two theories of human impact. New research shows one of these theories is now more compelling than the other.
Archaeologists have long argued over when and how people first domesticated horses. A decade ago, new techniques appeared to have provided answers – but further discoveries change the story again.
20 years ago, who could predict how much more researchers would know today about the human past – let alone what they could learn from a thimble of dirt, a scrape of dental plaque, or satellites in space.
Researchers used advanced chemical analyses to study breastfeeding in some of the world’s first farming communities.
Understanding why the great auk went extinct could help protect species still living today.
It’s not always easy to work out where Aboriginal remains came from, but science can help.
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Associate Professor in Ancient DNA, University of Otago
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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Assistant Curator of Human Evolution., University of Alberta
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Curator Invertebrates, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Otago
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Senior research fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Professor in Molecular Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University
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DPhil Student, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Swansea University
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Professor of Genetics and of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
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Research scientist, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Population and Statistical Genetics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Mathematician and Ancient DNA Researcher, University of Adelaide
