Some 9,700 years ago, on an autumn day, a group of people were camping on the west coast of Scandinavia. They were hunter-gatherers who had been fishing, hunting, and collecting resources in the area. Some teenagers, both boys and girls, were chewing resin to produce glue just after eating trout, deer, and hazelnuts. Due to ...
From the remains of nearly 100 ancient individuals found in a Stone Age community, we have reconstructed two extensive prehistoric family trees from a 6,700-year-old cemetery in France, revealing fresh insights into the Stone Age community. Our new results, published in Nature, show a group of prehistoric farmers who lived within a network of other ...
Standing atop the mountains in the southern highlands of Peru is the 15th-century marvel of the Inca empire, Machu Picchu. Today, the citadel is a global tourist attraction and an icon of precolonial Latin American history — but it was once the royal palace of an emperor. Our international team of researchers has uncovered the ...
An international team of researchers has recovered DNA from the owner of a deer-tooth pendant jewelry that was buried inside a remote Siberian cave for tens of thousands of years. In research published in Nature, Elena Essel of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and colleagues detail how they developed a new ...
Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds — the largest birds ever to have lived — have captured the public’s interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil record. A new study published in Nature Communications used ancient molecules extracted from fossil eggshells to reveal surprising new insights ...
At the icy northern tip of Greenland, far into the Artic Circle, a deep bed of sediment beneath the mouth of a fjord has lain frozen and undisturbed for 2 million years. Known as the Kap København Formation, this relic of a vanished world dates to a period when Earth was much warmer than it ...
Is there higher level intelligence in the 3 billion DNA codes? Who programmed our DNA? Human DNA contains tremendously complex codes and is one of the greatest mysteries faced by modern science. So after all, what is DNA, and how is it possible that this minuscule fragment contains such a gigantic amount of information?
Scientists for the first time have found strong evidence that RNA and DNA could have arisen from the same set of precursor molecules even before life evolved on Earth about four billion years ago. The discovery, published in Nature Chemistry, suggests that the first living things on Earth may have used both RNA and DNA, as ...
Less known than Attila’s Huns, the Avars were their more successful successors. They ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. We know that they came from Central Asia in the sixth century CE, but ancient authors and modern historians have debated their provenance. Now, a multidisciplinary research team of geneticists, archaeologists, ...
Human DNA contains tremendously complex codes and is one of the greatest mysteries faced by modern science. So what is DNA, and how is it possible that this minuscule fragment contains such a gigantic amount of information? Consider the following quotes that give a description of a small thing only two-millionths of a millimeter thick. ...
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