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ANCIENT GENES DISCOVERY
In 2024, scientists studied a 52,000-year-old mammoth, and found something ancient DNA was never expected to keep- How your blood formed? Scientists say ancient 700-million-year-old single-celled ancestors may still live inside human blood
- This submerged prehistoric site is changing what we know about Stone Age Britain
- A massive DNA discovery just rewrote everything we thought we knew about the Japanese peopleA groundbreaking DNA study has uncovered evidence of a third ancestral group contributing to Japan's population, originating from northeast...18 May, 2026, 05.16 PM IST
- What the X chromosome revealed about Neanderthals and early humansNew genetic research reveals ancient human and Neanderthal interactions followed a surprising pattern. Scientists found more modern human D...11 May, 2026, 03.44 AM IST
- Neanderthal babies may have grown at surprisingly rapid speeds compared with modern humansScientists unearthed a Neanderthal infant, Amud 7, in Israel. Its bones and brain were larger than expected for its age. This suggests Nean...08 May, 2026, 03.32 PM IST
- Researchers Found One of the Earliest Genetic Evidence of a Human DiseaseA 12,000-year-old burial in Italy revealed two women, not a male and female as previously thought. Genetic analysis identified one, Romito ...11 Mar, 2026, 04.00 PM IST
- Scientists Found DNA in Humans That Doesn’t Belong to Any Known AncestorRecent genetic studies reveal that early humans interbred with an unknown hominin species, adding a complex layer to our origins. These fin...11 Mar, 2026, 03.49 PM IST
- 5,000-year-old bacteria revived from ice can fight superbugs, but scientists see a downsideScientists have isolated a Psychrobacter SC65A.3, a bacterial strain frozen for almost 5,000 years in Romania’s Scărișoara Ice Cave. The mi...17 Feb, 2026, 06.59 PM IST
- Before LUCA, who came first? New study suggests life existed before the last universal common ancestorScientists now believe life began long before LUCA. Older organisms, now vanished, passed on vital genetic tools. These 'pre-LUCA' ancestor...16 Feb, 2026, 03.51 PM IST
- Why Starfish Are Actually One Giant Head With No Body, Scientists ConfirmModern evolutionary biology reveals starfish, or sea stars, possess a body plan akin to a head without a trunk. Genetic and developmental s...08 Feb, 2026, 02.55 PM IST
- Mystery solved: Scientists find what caused world’s first pandemic 1500 years agoPandemic origins: Scientists have successfully identified the genome of 'Yersinia pestis' from a mass grave in Jerash, Jordan, confirming i...16 Nov, 2025, 02.25 AM IST
- The potato’s secret past: Scientists uncover ancient botanical romance that changed the worldInternational scientists solved the mystery of potato origins. Research shows modern potatoes came from a natural mix of tomato-like plants...03 Aug, 2025, 10.10 AM IST
- Advanced weapons built 80,000 years ago, unearthed in Russia, has no human connectionAn 80,000-year-old bone spear tip, unearthed in Russia, challenges previous assumptions about Neanderthal capabilities. This discovery sugg...13 May, 2025, 12.18 PM IST
- 'Game of Thrones' dire wolves return after 12,000 years: How researchers brought them backColossal Biosciences has achieved a scientific breakthrough by breeding three wolf pups resembling the extinct dire wolves. Born in a seclu...08 Apr, 2025, 08.48 AM IST
- Meet Svante Paabo, the Swedish scientist who won Nobel in medicine. His father got it in 1982Techniques that Paabo spearheaded allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins - the Denisovans as...04 Oct, 2022, 11.32 AM IST
- Nobel Prize winner Svante Paabo's work: Neanderthal genome, DenisovansSvante Paabo and colleagues extracted and sequenced the first Neanderthal genome from ancient bones. He also brought to light the existence...03 Oct, 2022, 08.21 PM IST
- Nobel prize in medicine awarded for research on evolutionSwedish scientist Svante Paabo won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for his discoveries on human evolution that provided key insi...03 Oct, 2022, 05.25 PM IST
- Our ancient texts should not be disregarded: ISRO chief AS Kiran KumarIndian Space Research Organisation Chairman AS Kiran Kumar today said its ancient texts which could yield vital knowledge, if verified, stu...21 Nov, 2015, 08.09 PM IST
- Plant discovery could lead to growing food in spaceResearchers have discovered a gene in an ancient "magical" Australian native tobacco plant that may pave the way for growing food in space.04 Nov, 2015, 04.23 PM IST
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