New research shows ancient plague may have spread through livestock, not fleas, based on DNA from a 4,000-year-old sheep.

In the very heart of the ancient lands of Eurasia, a major scientific discovery has shed new light on one of the oldest and ...

Before Yersinia pestis devastated Europe in the Middle Ages, the bacteria ravaged the Bronze Age for nearly two millennia.

In the 6th century, the Byzantine historian Procopius recorded one of the most devastating disasters of the ancient world: the Plague of Justinian. Beginning around 541 AD, the disease spread rapidly ...

The devastating illness - known as the 'Black Death' - is estimated to have killed between 75 and 200 million people globally ...

Christopher Lyon receives funding from a Leverhulme Trust Research Centre—The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, grant no. RC-2018-021 and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences ...

Throughout history, there have been a few individual years that brought sudden, widespread devastation. Mortality surged, ...

Connecticut-based hardcore outfit Boundaries returned earlier today to drop their first new piece of music since 2024’s Death ...

The Lord of the Rings is the apex of cinematic fantasy, but movies like Pan's Labyrinth and The Seventh Seal better execute ...

The spring equinox marks the day where the Northern and Southern hemispheres have as close to equal sunlight as possible.

Declining population or depopulation has emerged after years of warnings about overpopulation. While biologists see benefits ...