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

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

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Our closest extinct relatives, Neanderthals, existed thousands of years ago. Here are 10 interesting facts about their lives, brains, and survival. Neanderthals existed in Europe and Asia from ...

During Thursday's instalment of BBC Breakfast, hosts Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty were bringing people the latest ...

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

BBC Breakfast host Naga Munchetty was left speechless by her co-star Charlie Stayt after he made an off-the-cuff remark about ...

However, efforts to tie past extinction events to such weakening have largely failed. A possible exception involves the Neanderthals, who appear to have gone extinct (aside from their legacy in ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. "Denisovan fossils are very scarce," with only a ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...