Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years.

The bones are tangled and entwined, as though the bodies were thrown or rolled on top of each other. Archaeologists have ...

They added that skeletal evidence of animal attacks from prehistoric times is extremely rare.

The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South ...

"The brain microplastic paper is a joke." The post Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human ...

A study suggests that language used to describe a foetus during an ultrasound may affect parents' perceptions of their baby ...

New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or sub-Saharan Africa. Advances in DNA sequencing are helping researchers resolve a ...