Ancient human DNA has survived on Iberian cave walls for up to 16,700 years, extracted from both painted surfaces and bare ...

Many large mammals have lost genetic diversity, often thanks to the actions of people shrinking their populations. The implications can be severe because without genetic diversity, a population does ...

Cross-species hybridization is a more frequent phenomenon than previously thought. In the past, it happened with modern humans; it is estimated that our genome contains about 2% Neanderthal DNA. We ...

Prehistoric human DNA has been detected on cave walls by an international team of scientists, according to a report in The Portugal News. Sara Garcês of the Institute of Earth and Memory and the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have uncovered an unexpected key to the Iberian lynx's ...

Ancient DNA is uncovering the secrets of the unique populations of what are now Portugal and Spain. Two studies published this week include unexpected findings from the DNA of people who lived ...

The third millennium BCE is a highly dynamic period in the prehistory of Europe and western Asia, characterized by large-scale social and political changes. In the Iberian Peninsula, the Copper Age ...

Despite being in contact with other Mediterranean cultures, the genetic identity of the Iberian people from the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula existing in the Iron Age remained largely stable ...

In 2015, a team of geneticists cracked open the genomes of 69 ancient Europeans and found something that upended centuries of folklore: the people living in Bronze Age Europe were not simply the ...