Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

N eanderthals and Homo sapiens repeatedly interbred, shared genes, and merged populations over the course of nearly 250,000 ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

Analysis - For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early humans: Paranthropus robustus. It walked upright, and was built ...

A remarkable collection of wooden tools dated to around 300,000 years ago has been discovered at an archaeological site in ...

Exciting new research reveals a fascinating connection between the ancient Dragon Man skull, unearthed in China, and the enigmatic Denisovans. Dating back over 140,000 years, this skull may represent ...

A groundbreaking study has resolved the mystery surrounding the “Dragon Man” skull, one of the most significant fossil discoveries in recent history. Initially discovered in 1933 by a Chinese laborer ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

For years the Denisovans lived only in gene sequencers and imagination. Now, a massive skull nicknamed Dragon Man has handed them a recognizable profile. Molecular sleuthing has tied the more‑than‑146 ...

A recently published study in Science has identified an almost-complete hominin skull as belonging to a member of the Denisovan lineage. Researchers recovered the skull, known as the “Dragon Man,” in ...

Skulls are typically the best type of fossilized remains to understand the appearance or form of an extinct hominin species.

The Harbin skull’s mosaic of traits — some primitive, others more evolved — reveals that Denisovans were a highly distinctive human lineage, bridging older hominin forms and our own species.