In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only in bones, but in the dirt beneath their feet. By treating cave sediments ...

Ancient history often feels distant and abstract, reduced to fossil fragments and textbook timelines. Yet every so often, a scientific discovery makes the past feel unexpectedly personal. A new ...

For the first time in the world, BSIP and ZSI are attempting to sequence the whole nuclear genome of this extinct Indian big cat.