A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study has decoded a mysterious plague that swept across Eurasia thousands of years ago. An ancient strain of plague ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sheep tooth from Arkaim has given scientists the first proof of Bronze Age plague in an animal, offering new clues about how the ...

While analyzing livestock DNA from Arkaim, an international team that includes University of Arkansas archaeologist Taylor Hermes detected Yersinia pestis in ...

Four thousand years ago, a sheep in the Eurasian Steppe carried a lethal bacterium that once swept across continents. The discovery of its preserved DNA has given scientists the first direct evidence ...

Sheep may have played a major role in a prehistoric plague outbreak. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 11, 2025 11:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, revealing that the disease’s early spread depended on animals long before ...

Known only from ancient DNA, the ‘LNBA plague’ lineage has left scientists puzzled about its origin and transmission. Now the ancient plague has been identified in an animal for the first time - a ...

Ancient sheep buried in an elite grave in Egypt show the oldest evidence of humans deliberately deforming the horns of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered strangely deformed sheep skulls at an ancient Egyptian burial site, representing the oldest known example of humans modifying livestock horns. Researchers also found the ...

Garrott speculated that more extensive nuclear DNA samples would be more likely to show such a change in bighorn sheep genes over thousands of years. But retrieving that information from ancient bone ...

Sheep with deformed horns are among the more mysterious animal remains discovered at an ancient Egyptian burial site dating back to around 3700 BC. They also represent the oldest physical evidence of ...