They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively -- they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a ...

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

Artefacts unearthed in Yunnan province display key features of toolmaking technology associated with Neanderthals much ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost ...

Alice In Chains' William DuVall and Chained Saint's Ethan Kahn dive into the latter's debut album, 'Blindside,' which DuVall ...

Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell. Carolina, an African giant ...

A multidisciplinary study led by researchers from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of ...

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors ... These hunters were focused on seasonal migratory prey such as reindeer, giant deer, horse and bison. Quina scrapers ...

The Levant region of the Middle East has long been recognized as a mixing pot of early humans and Neanderthals, some local and some on their way to and from other geographical regions. The many ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical ...