A new analysis of the ancient human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico offers more evidence that they are ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.

We like to draw a line between humans and animals, a clear divide built on memory ... After they dropped sweet potatoes onto ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

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

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

From depressed polar bears to charismatic pandas, conservationists have used anthropomorphism, or the practice of attributing ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

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

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