Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and ...

Ancient DNA from Iceland’s first centuries of habitation is forcing historians and geneticists to redraw the map of who ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

Researchers have uncovered ancient DNA suggesting that Viking Norse people may have arrived in Iceland as early as 810 AD, a full 70 years earlier than the widely accepted date of 874 AD. In the most ...