Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

Mummies discovered in modern-day Libya have been found to have no matching DNA with modern humans, leading to more questions than answers.

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

In this pioneering study, researchers analyzed 7,500-year-old African women and found a whole new human lineage.