Dredging leads to the uncovering of thousands of vertebrate fossils, among which two were identified to be hominin species.

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.. The ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

New research has found that a skull from a mysterious human relative nicknamed “Dragon Man” belongs to an extinct archaic ...

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.