Rare fossils reveal that worms managed to survive multiple mass extinction events. A recent scientific investigation has ...

Ancient DNA from bubonic plague victims buried in cemeteries on the old Silk Road trade route in Central Asia has helped solve an enduring mystery, pinpointing an area in northern Kyrgyzstan as the ...

Researchers believe they may have found ground zero for the deadliest plague in human history, the Black Death — pulling the veil off a mystery that has been shrouded for nearly 700 years. A paper ...

Reconstructing pathogen's genome showed that this strain not only gave rise to the one that caused the Black Death that mauled Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa but also to most plague ...

Director of Oíche Shamhna, An Ancient Mystery, David Ryan writes about the making of the two part series on RTÉ ONE Sunday at 7.30pm and Bank Holiday Monday at 6.30pm, investigating the roots of the ...

I’m in the Ecuadorian Amazon and I’m lost. I missed my stop, sheepishly had to exit the van in the middle of nowhere, and now I’m sitting on a bench alone, amid vine-covered trees, leaves bigger than ...