The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

Scientists build a 3D model of one of our evolutionary cousins from the pieces of a shattered skull. Palaeoanthropologist Emma Pomeroy describes the main features of the Shanidar Z Neanderthal skull.

In Fernbridge, a tiny town on California’s northern coast, a new wool mill is spinning to life. It’s part of a goal to revive ...

Some people think that learning history might be useless. "It already happened, what's the point?" Yet the truth is that ...

The residents of the Moroccan site weren’t quite the Homo sapiens of today; their skulls were less rounded ... a type of “mosaic evolution” that Neanderthals also seem to have exhibited.

I f you don’t yet know what Labubu is, after you read this, you’ll start noticing them everywhere. And if you do know Labubu, ...

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

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

Researchers identify 146,000-year-old 'dragon man' skull as a Denisovan using dental calculus after DNA extraction attempts ...

While it had previously been determined to belong to a Neanderthal, a team of researchers who previously studied the skull have now reevaluated it and found contradictory features that ...

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...

THE face of humans’ most mysterious ancestor has finally been uncovered after 217,000 years. The discovery proves that the ...