Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.. The ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

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

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

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

New research has found that a skull from a mysterious human relative nicknamed “Dragon Man” belongs to an extinct archaic ...

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.

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

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...