Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

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

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

When you think of dinosaurs, you might imagine towering predators or gentle giants roaming prehistoric landscapes. But what ...

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.

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

On the seabed off the coast of Taiwan, a fisherman’s dredge pulled up more than just marine life. Among the animal remains was something unexpected—a thick, heavy jawbone.

The fossils and tools found in Morocco therefore send an important reminder about our understanding of the human journey, he says: “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” The ...

Every living thing today is a descendant of something that crawled out of the primordial ooze. And now using an old fossil of ...

Scientists used enamel proteins from 2-million-year-old teeth to find unexpected variation in Paranthropus robustus.

Fossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton Quarry are now dated to 346 million years ago, offering rare insight into vertebrate ...

Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led humans into Eurasia and beyond, new research shows that humans expanded their ...