This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

A heap of skulls found in the center of a prehistoric village has revealed evidence of an unusual ritual tradition associated with the dead that appears to have been practiced for centuries, a ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

This remarkable specimen was excavated, alongside 87 prehistoric stone tools, in northern India's Kashmir Valley in late 2000 ...

The mystery of a 146,000-year-old skull has been solved — using plaque extracted from a tooth. The skull, nicknamed “Dragon ...

The human-made marks on Magdalenian bones suggest that these people scalped and defleshed heads, leaving cut marks, and fractured skulls to access the nutrient-rich brain, leaving fractures.

Dragon Man skull from China confirmed as Denisovan, offering groundbreaking insights into early human evolution and migration.

A pioneering study in experimental archaeology has revealed the techniques used by prehistoric communities in north-eastern ...

Fragments of a human skull may reveal the secrets of an ancient land, ruled by venomous Komodo dragons. The 140-000-year-old bone fragments were discovered buried in a now-submerged land in Indonesia.

First Near-Complete Denisovan Skull Reveals What This Ancient Human Cousin Looked Like ... “people can extract human mitochondrial DNA from those samples” to learn more about prehistoric human ...