About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

Ancient Taiwan jawbone fossil confirms Denisovan presence, expanding their range across East and Southeast Asia regions.

“We can identity Neanderthal elements and Denisovan elements" in the DNA of some people alive today, said Tsutaya. The ...

A baby mammoth nicknamed "Yana" was dissected by Russian scientists at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March ...

The Taforalt people also have half the Neanderthal genes of non-Africans, while the Takarkori have ten times less. What is strange is that they still have more Neanderthal DNA than other sub ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost 55,000 years. Their findings were published March 31 in Proceedings of the ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

Quina is one of a number of stone tool styles associated with Neanderthals that archaeologists call Mousterian culture.The unprecedented discovery at Longtan had "significant implications ...