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

New radiocarbon dating of ancient mud samples confirm the controversial dating of 23,000-year-old footprints in White Sands, ...

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

A sequence of footprints hidden deep within a long-dried paleo‑lake bed were discovered in 2021 by archaeologists, pushing back the purported arrival of early North American settlers between 23,000 an ...

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied ...

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

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

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

Despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians, what Denisovans looked like has remained an ...

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

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 ...