A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

The oldest-known human bones in Europe were just discovered in a cave in Bulgaria. The cave also contained ancient tools ...

Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this ...

Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

Scientists have identified an ancient jawbone found in Taiwan as belonging to the enigmatic Denisovans, an extinct group of ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

The exact mechanisms behind the differences in facial features between Neanderthals and modern humans are still not fully ...

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

In a recent study, researchers have analyzed unprecedented finds from Tinshemet Cave in Israel, in order to understand the relationship between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens during the mid-Middle ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...