DNA Helps Solve Mystery of Ancient Mummies Buried in Boats in Chinese Desert
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Paleogenetics investigated 18 ancient genomes of the inhabitants of Xinjiang (about 3000-1700 BC) and found out the origin of the…
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Scientists Say Finding Dinosaur DNA Not Impossible
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Chinese paleontologists have announced the discovery of a cell nucleus containing chromatin in the fossilized cartilage of the Early Cretaceous…
Researchers Find “Borg DNA” Capable of Assimilating Genes
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In the process of genetic analysis of the microbial community of the swamp, American scientists discovered a new type of huge genetic element, probably capable of assimilating the genes of archaea. For this reason, they were named after the Borg civilization from the science fiction series Star Trek – Borg DNA.
Only 7% of our DNA is Unique to Modern Humans
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American geneticists analyzed 279 genomes of modern and 3 archaic people and found that the human genome is only 1.5-7 percent unique in relation to other hominins.
Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA Helped Scientists Find 14 Living Male Descendants
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Imagine finding out that you are a descendant of one of the greatest historical figures like Leonardo da Vinci.
In a first, Scientists Sequence 16,000-Year-Old Bear DNA From Cave Soil Samples
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In one of the countless caves in Mexico, scientists were able to isolate DNA samples that belonged to extinct bear…
Scientists Successfully Recover Oldest DNA in History From 1.2 Million-Year-Old Mammoth
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Biologists have reconstructed the ancient DNA of three mammoths from the Siberian permafrost. The age of two specimens exceeds a…
Ancient DNA Sheds Light on First Caribbean Settlers and Their Origin
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A new study offers unprecedented insight into the early inhabitants of the Caribbean. Researchers analyzed ancient DNA samples and came…
How Ancient DNA Sheds Light On the Origin of the Biblical Canaanite Civilization
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A refreshed analysis of ancient DNA from the entire genome collected across five archaeological sites from 73 individuals has provided…
3 Things Scientists Found From Studying Ancient DNA of Neolithic East Asians
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Newly discovered East Asian Neolithic genomes have unveiled a missing piece of human prehistory, namely that population movement played an…
Modern-day Africans Conserve DNA from Unknown Extinct Human Species
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According to a study published in Genome Biology, modern-day Africans conserve DNA from an unknown and extinct human species. With…
12,000-Year-Old Dog Remains Rewrite History of Human Presence In Central America
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Paleozoologists have examined a fragment of an ancient coyote jaw discovered in the 1990s during excavations in northeastern Costa Rica….
New Study Challenges Mainstream Theory on the Origin Of Native American Populations
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Paleoanthropologists studied the morphology of the teeth of the Ainu people and the inhabitants of Japan of the Jomon period…
8 Near-Earth Asteroids the Size of the Great Pyramid to Pass by Earth
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This week, an asteroid only found earlier this year will fly past our planet – asteroid 2021 SM3. The object,…
Study Sheds Light on Origins of Mysterious Etruscan Civilization
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Paleogeneticists analyzed the DNA of 82 individuals from Etruria and Southern Italy, who lived between 800 BC and 1000 AD,…
Harvard Geneticist Raises Funds to Bring Mammoths Back to Life
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Biologist George Church and entrepreneur Ben Lamm announced the creation of Colossal, a company that will be engaged in the…
Scientists Find “New Kind” of Ancient Human
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Paleogeneticists isolated DNA from the remains of a young woman who died in South Sulawesi about 7.3-7.2 thousand years ago and found that her genome contains fewer genes from Denisovans than most modern Australian Aborigines and Papuans. In addition, it belongs to a previously undescribed population of hunter-gatherers, whose ancestors may have come to Sulawesi before the Papuans, Australian, and Tasmanian aborigines.
10 Reasons Why Göbekli Tepe is a Lost Civilization and Not an Ancient Monument
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There is enough evidence to suggest that Göbekli Tepe was not just an ancient site, but the remnant of a long-lost ancient civilization absent from history.
10 Things You Need to Know About the “Immortal” Welwitschia Plant
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An international team of scientists found out that the African Welwitschia plant can live for more than a thousand years…
Martian Moons Could Hold Clues to Life on Red Planet
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Scientists Ryuki Hedo and Tomohiro Usui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have published a promising paper, in which…
Previously Unknown Human Population Found
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Paleogeneticists analyzed sediment samples from the Georgian cave of Satsurbia and found ancient DNA fragments of a wolf, a bison, as well as a person who lived about 25 thousand years ago. The woman whose DNA was studied belonged to a completely unknown human population.
Archaeologists Excavate Ancient Island Settlement Off Croatian Coast Dating Back Six Millennia
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Underwater archaeologists from Croatia have discovered a Neolithic settlement that existed more than six thousand years ago in the region…