Colossal, a genetics startup, has birthed three pups that contain ancient DNA retrieved from the remains of the animal’s ...

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

Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using ...

Archaeologists have unearthed stone tools in China that experts say have caused "big upset" to the way we think about East ...

Researchers in China have uncovered 55,000-year-old advanced tools, suggesting an unknown human species matched Neanderthal ...

It was in 2013, in South Africa's Rising Star cave system, that archaeologists first discovered the remains of H. naledi.

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

During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: new kinds of stone tools that were smaller but could be used for many ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

As for the dodo, the Nicobar Pigeon is the closest living relative, and the Solitaire, a type of extinct bird that was found ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Scientists discovered 50,000-year-old viruses in Neanderthal DNA that could help explain their mysterious extinction Car ...