Dinosaur DNA may still be out of reach, but scientists are uncovering something almost as exciting—ancient blood vessels ...

Ancient Assyrian merchants often jotted down commercial and economic details on tablets as any business owner would, but they also kept track of something with more sinister: blood money. Paying out ...

It's the beginning of the spooky season, which means ghouls, ghosts, and bloodsuckers abound. One of the most famous bloodsuckers in nature is, of course, the leech. These parasites feed on blood and ...

Learn how ancient DNA and archaeogenetics are reshaping what we know about family and revealing that kinship in early societies was often built through shared lives, not just shared genes.

You probably have a member of your family that you're not related to by blood—a step-parent, an adopted cousin, your mom's best friend who you grew up calling your aunt. They're indisputably part of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient Assyrian texts detailed a legal system of paying blood money for murdered merchants. The blood money system created a ...