The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

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

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

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

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

NEW YORK -- Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back ...

The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was previously believed.