A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

The event in question is the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, also known as the “Great Dying,” which occurred around 252 ...

Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and ...

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — ...

A new linguistic study has revealed that the European Huns, including their famous leader Attila, were not Turkic in origin as once believed, but instead spoke an ancient Siberian language. This ...

The Harbin skull confirms Denisovan ancestry and expands their known range using protein and DNA analysis from dental calculus. What did Denisovans look like, despite their known genetic contributions ...

“Conflict” seems to imply war and genocide. If disease killed them, it would be very odd for another group to move into their ...

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

Two wolf pups frozen for 14,000 years in Siberia reveal surprising Ice Age diets and clues about early canine evolution.

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 skull to Denisovan DNA. That skull, called the Harbin cranium, is over 146,000 ...

A new line of evidence is providing further corroboration of the antiquity of fossilized footprints discovered at White Sands ...