4,000-Year-Old Sheep Bone Shows Evidence of the Plague, a First Case Beyond Humans Learn about the first evidence of the Bronze Age plague in a non-human host, found in a sheep bone from Russia.

4,000-Year-Old Sheep Bone Shows Evidence of the Plague, a First Case Beyond Humans #Science #Biology #Microbiology #PlagueResearch #AncientDiseases #MicrobialHistory

Million-Year-Old Mammoth Tooth Carries Oldest Host-Associated Bacteria DNA Ever Found Ancient bacterial DNA offers rare insights into how microbes evolved alongside their hosts and how they connect to species living today.

Million-Year-Old Mammoth Tooth Carries Oldest Host-Associated Bacteria DNA Ever Found #Science #Biology #Microbiology #MammothTooth #AncientDNA #MicrobialHistory

Leprosy in the Americas Before Columbus What Ancient Genomes Reveal About a Neglected Disease's Deep Roots in Indigenous History

Leprosy was in the Americas centuries before Europeans arrived. Ancient DNA reveals a quiet epidemic with deep Indigenous roots. Rethinking disease history, one genome at a time. #Paleogenomics #Leprosy #AncientDNA #Anthropology #MicrobialHistory @science.org