Scientists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old ancestor of the Black Death in the remains of a Bronze Age sheep, shedding light on the early evolution of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an important clue for how plague could transmit within pastoralist communities ...

These prehistoric people first came to Doggerland ... Regardless of how the region ultimately sank, the last humans were forced to flee about 8,000 years ago — and the landmass was lost to ...