Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

present-day humans exhibit significantly higher levels of bone resorption." The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans ...

A US company this week said it had successfully bred three dire wolves, even though the species has been extinct for ...

They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively—they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a ...

A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...

During the Stone Age, which started roughly 3.3 million years ago and ended around 8700 and 2000 BC, many scientists have ...

The exact mechanisms behind the differences in facial features between Neanderthals and modern humans are still not fully understood. This gap in knowledge has inspired researchers from the Max Planck ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought ...

Ten years ago, fishermen in Taiwan dredged a jawbone from the seafloor. Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.