Recent findings show bigmouth buffalo fish have perplexingly long lives and appear to get healthier as they age. But scientists are worried their population is about to crash. If you ever find ...

Nevertheless, there was a clear shift in the eighth century CE (early Viking Age) in Zealand (present-day Denmark), which persisted among later Viking age groups in Denmark. Taken together ...

Researchers identified a Roman-era gladiator or soldier with partial Scandinavian ancestry, offering evidence of significant migrations long before the Viking Age. Using an innovative DNA analysis ...

Their findings overturn long-held assumptions about population movements during the twilight of the Roman Empire and the dawn of the Viking Age. A team of international researchers, led by Leo Speidel ...

It allows us to see what we couldn't before, in this case migrations all across Europe originating in the north of Europe in the Iron Age, and then back into Scandinavia before the Viking Age ...

They applied the new method to over 1,500 European genomes (a person’s complete set of DNA) from people who lived primarily during the first millennium AD (year 1 to 1000), encompassing the Iron Age, ...

Likewise, researchers found a “clear shift” in genetic ancestry in 8th century Denmark in which Viking communities had genetic links to Iron Age groups much further south. Experts estimate the ...

This insinuates that people of Scandinavian ancestry were in Britain before the Anglo-Saxon period (around 400 A.D. to 1,000 A.D.) and Viking period (around 800 A.D. to 1,000 A.D.). Genetic analysis ...

Germanic-speaking people move north into Scandinavia before the Viking Age The team then used the method to uncover a later additional northward wave of migration into Scandinavia at the end of ...

Talking about the Viking Age is like saying we live in the Navy SEAL Era. Image All that is true enough, writes Eleanor Barraclough in “Embers of the Hands,” her survey of Norse life outside ...

Archaeologists uncovered “an unusually rich treasure trove” inside the graves of three wealthy women from the Viking Age, offering a window into their lives and activities in the 9 th century.