When the video of his birth parents makes him wonder whether his destiny is evil, it takes only a trip to his adoptive ...

A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

Neanderthals living in what is now Belgium made a kind of prehistoric Swiss Army Knife from the bones of a cave lion some 130 ...

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

The five-part BBC series examines how we, as Homo sapiens, went from being just one of many types of human to becoming the ...

July 4 marked Independence Day in America. While some celebrated, others worried as U.S. President Donald Trump signed a ...

DC fans are still trying to figure out the true identity of the masked version of Ultraman who appears in James Gunn's ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

Molecular sleuthing has tied the more‑than‑146,000‑year‑old Harbin cranium, known as "Dragon Man," to this hidden branch of humanity.

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

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

The mystery began with a giant, human-like skull discovered by a Chinese laborer in Harbin City, China, in 1933. In 2018, the man's family recovered the ... the proteome to those of contemporary ...