The ancient origins of a mysterious jawbone dredged by commercial fishers off the coast of Taiwan have been revealed: it came from an enigmatic, extinct type of human called a Denisovan.

Basketball great LeBron James has become the first professional male athlete to have his likeness depicted in a Ken doll, as ...

Scientists have reconstructed the face of a 1,000-year-old Viking woman buried with weapons — complete with a battle scar, reshaping ideas of Norse gender roles.

A neolithic warrior gets a face thanks to modern tech. At first, it was just a cluster of bone plates peeking from the ...

Rather than charge blindly into a fight, the male Bush Chat chooses to sing. This suggests an important evolutionary trade-off. Physical fights are costly. They can lead to injury or even death. Songs ...