Varanasi: A recent DNA study on Himalayan populations reveals the strongest genetic ties with Tibet and Siberia, while links ...

Half a billion years ago, a shallow sea in what is now Siberia teemed with creatures that look more like science fiction than prehistory. Locked in that ancient seabed, scientists have now identified ...

In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees.

Tourists will visit a shipyard, where specialists use ancient technologies to make the Northern Sea Route explorers' vessel - a koch ...

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

In eastern Siberia, one of the world’s coldest cities is built on a foundation that is slowly changing. Yakutsk stands on ...

Far from the ferocious apex predators that stalk to forests and the cold, snow-blown regions of the world, teddy bears are soft, gentle guardians built for cuddling. They deserve names that are sweet, ...

Ancient DNA from a Colombian hunter-gatherer reveals a 5,500-year-old infection, rewriting what we know about syphilis and ...

Thanks to Morning Brew for sponsoring today’s video. Scientists have used a bacteria that commonly infects us to track how ...

14,000 years ago, a weeks-old wolf puppy ate its last meal — meat from a woolly rhinoceros — shortly before dying on the ...

In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still there ...