This is the dramatic moment a brave police officer takes down a fleeing motorcycle rider with his bare hands. Footage shows ...

The discovery of archaic human jawbone shatters assumptions about the geographic limits of the Denisova hominin.

Ancient human history is now resurfacing, quite literally, from the bottom of the sea. Off the western coast of Taiwan, ...

The lower jawbone, from an individual named Penghu 1, is the first piece of fossil evidence that Denisovans were as ...

There, they encountered the Neanderthals, our now-extinct relatives, and over centuries these groups mated and exchanged DNA. Advances in genome-sequencing and fossil discoveries have helped ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. "Denisovan fossils are very scarce," with only a ...

This past summer, Paabo announced that he and his co-workers were going to take the next—and biggest—step, in their effort to resurrect the genome of the Neanderthal, our distant evolutionary ...

I’ve read both that modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and that they didn’t. Which is it? Robert Redinger, Grant, Michigan There is evidence that they did, in a limited way, says ...

It is the first time researchers use data from ... A New Timeline for Neanderthal Interbreeding With Modern Humans Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans.