A Senate version advanced through another committee, although lawmakers on both sides of the aisle see problems in the ...

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

The oldest-known human bones in Europe were just discovered in a cave in Bulgaria. The cave also contained ancient tools ...

Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this ...

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

A major discovery in West Africa is rewriting human history—archaeologists have found stone tools dating back 150,000 years ...

The world’s oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces may have been used by children to mimic the tools of their parents, or ...

Researchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.

Researchers found European-style Quina tools in China, dating back 55,000 years, challenging the view that East Asia’s Middle ...

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

A team of scientists found a human footprint that was more than 15,000 years old and challenged the timeline of human ...