The discovery of a prehistoric tail-shedding reptile reveals more about large lizard life and lineage during the Late ...

In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

A newly discovered, raccoon-sized armored monstersaurian from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...

How did Homo sapiens manage to leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, when earlier treks out of the continent had ended in ...