Recent discoveries provide new insights into why Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. Specifically, a study ...

About 41,000 years ago, Homo sapiens may have survived increased solar radiation caused by a weakening magnetic field by ...

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that apparently 930,000 years ago, our ancestors were down to an astonishingly small ...

To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

Erik and Lyle Menendez's long-awaited resentencing hearing will move forward on Thursday despite a new filing from Los ...

Ancient Taiwan jawbone fossil confirms Denisovan presence, expanding their range across East and Southeast Asia regions.