These adorable little animals look like white puppies, not the fruit of a daring science project to resuscitate an extinct ...

A fossilized human jawbone discovered in Taiwan is now thought to belong to a Denisovan, an ancient human relative.

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

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

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

The exact mechanisms behind the differences in facial features between Neanderthals and modern humans are still not fully ...

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

The tests revealed we were 12 per cent Neanderthal and distantly related to Genghis Khan ... brink of some Gattaca-style future where genetic data determines your entire life. You’d like to think, ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

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, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. CT scans of a Neanderthal skull (left) and a modern human skull ...

Modern humans have uniquely small and flat faces, especially compared with our Neanderthal cousins' notoriously robust faces and large noses, but the reason for this difference has eluded ...