An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

A rare Denisovan jawbone found off Taiwan confirms these ancient human relatives once lived across much of Asia.

He studied fossil bones, stone artifacts and cave paintings ... Pithecanthropus, now called Homo erectus, or erect man, had been discovered in Java just before the turn of the century, and ...

In a groundbreaking discovery that may rewrite the map of human prehistory, fossilised genetic evidence has revealed that ...

Academics have said they have found "the earliest human face of western Europe", after fragments of a skull were found at the Spanish archaeological cave site of Sima del Elefante. The skull of the ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil ... Apr. 1, 2025 — More ...

They are, in the opinion of no less an authority than the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, “the world’s most important animal fossils”—not Tyrannosaurus rex, not Lucy, but a collection of ...

Dinosaurs' Apparent Decline Prior to Asteroid May Be Due to Poor Fossil Record Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million ...

Rare fossil of an ammonite preserved with a distinct mother of pearl iridescence, recently discovered by Dr. Chris Shelton and RSU student Kolby Dooling. A geology professor and his student at ...