A surprising discovery in the Colombian Andes has uncovered the 6,000-year-old skeletons of a mysterious group of people.

We don’t know where they came from. We don’t know where they went. The unique DNA of an ancient tribe of hunter-gatherers is adding to the confusion surrounding the source of South America’s first ...

A new analysis of ancient DNA reveals a previously unknown lineage of hunter-gatherers who lived in what is now Colombia.

“It feels almost magical to be able to infer such a complete picture of an ancient ecosystem from tiny fragments of preserved DNA,” Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at the University of ...

Archaeologists uncovered ancient Colombian remains that defy connection to modern or ancient populations, sparking new ...

"Up to this point, we didn't believe there was any other lineage that would appear in South America," said archaeologist ...

An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

A previously unknown ancient population has been uncovered in Colombia, revealing a genetic lineage unlike any seen before in ...

An ancient and previously unknown population has been identified in the highlands of Colombia, revealing a genetic lineage unlike any other in the Americas. The study, published this week in Science ...