Learn more about Thorin the Neanderthal, one of the last remaining specimens of ancient humans to be found in Eurasia.

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

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought ...

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

Although DNA could not be extracted directly from the Penghu 1 fossil due to material degradation, scientists applied mass ...

16, 2025 — A study suggests that Homo sapiens ... 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ...

Scientists have identified an ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan as belonging to the Denisovans, an elusive group of early ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens — coexisted in Eurasia and sometimes interbred, researchers say. “We can identity Neanderthal elements and Denisovan elements" in the DNA of some people alive ...