Recent discoveries provide new insights into why Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Specifically, a study ...

A fossil jawbone found off Taiwan has been confirmed as Denisovan using ancient protein analysis, revealing they lived in ...

Around 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field underwent a chaotic shift that temporarily weakened the planet’s natural ...

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

Scientists say tailored clothes, ochre-based sunscreen, and cave shelter helped Homo sapiens survive a magnetic shift 41,000 ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

A GROUNDBREAKING discovery of two mummies has revealed a previously unknown human ancestor from over 7,000 years ago. The ...

Shocking DNA findings pulled from two mummies discovered in Northern Africa may rewrite the family tree of human history.

Colossal Biosciences’ Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi might have broken the internet, but a lot of that is becoming what ...

The fossil expands the Denisovan's known range by thousands of kilometres and provides new insights into how this species looked.

Analysis of a perfect jawbone found in Taiwan has given us new clues to the Denisovans, an enigmatic people with whom our ...

Back then, it was a savannah that early human populations settled in to take ... The Taforalt people also have half the Neanderthal genes of non-Africans, while the Takarkori have ten times ...