For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

Initially discovered in 1933 by a Chinese laborer in Harbin City, China, the skull was once thought to belong to a new human species named Homo longi, or “Dragon Man.” However, recent DNA analysis has ...

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

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

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

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered “hominin” group (the Denisovans) that interbred with modern day humans passed on some of their genes via multiple ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Skulls are typically the best type of fossilized remains to understand the appearance or form of an extinct hominin species.

New study uses DNA evidence to challenge claims that humans arrived in Sahul 65,000 years ago, pointing to a later migration ...