Neanderthals arose about 430,000 years ago, living in Europe and central Asia until their demise some 40,000 years ago.

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

Molecular sleuthing has tied the more‑than‑146,000‑year‑old Harbin cranium, known as "Dragon Man," to this hidden branch of humanity.

Scientists explore the mystery of Neanderthal extinction. A new theory links their disappearance to the Laschamp event. This ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. That ...

Researchers identify 146,000-year-old 'dragon man' skull as a Denisovan using dental calculus after DNA extraction attempts ...

Could cosmic radiation from a magnetic pole shift explain Neanderthal extinction? A new study from the University of Michigan ...

Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

Recent discoveries using lab-grown brain organoids, or "mini-brains," suggest that testosterone increases brain size while ...

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...