A newly published research paper has reignited debate about when humans first set foot in Australia, proposing a later date ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals ...

Explore five fascinating extinct human species that once walked the Earth beside Homo sapiens, from Neanderthals to the ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

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

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

Homo sapiens — mingled and interbred with other prehistoric humans: our distant cousins, the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

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 ...