A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

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

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The fossil was recovered by fishermen at the Penghu Channel off the coast of Taiwan and could be the most complete fossil of ...

Researchers have uncovered the earliest modern human remains in Europe — bones from Bulgaria’s Bacho Kiro cave that date back ...

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

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

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A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...