An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

Researchers recovered ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia and reconstructed a genome related to Treponema pallidum. The lineage predates known syphilis strains by ~3,000 years, ...

The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...

A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.

The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South ...

From a 5,500-year-old human shinbone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, providing the oldest evidence yet that the disease has ancient roots in the ...

A rhinoceros skeleton buried beneath Canada's High Arctic for 23 million years has emerged as the northernmost member of its family ever documented, fundamentally reshaping understanding of ancient ...

It took six decades for Calgary Police Service investigators, working with their U.S. counterparts, to determine how Anna ...

A team of archaeologists from University College London (UCL) and the Natural History Museum in London has identified and ...

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying ...