Two new studies published in Science and Cell have shed light on a mysterious skull found in China, and in the process have ...

The Moroccan site, known as Jebel Irhoud, was an active barite mine when it first made scientific ... we associate with anatomically modern humans probably appeared in a type of “mosaic ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

Learn more about Morganucodon and Brasilodon, the two species that may have given life to the mammals we know today.

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. That ...

While flamethrowers have some notable history as an iconic military tool during the Vietnam era, are the weapons still used ...

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

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.

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.

The Denisovans, together with the Neanderthals, are the closest extinct relatives of modern humans ... 400,000 years ago — a period linked with major shifts in human technology, such as the ...

The upcoming tournament, hosted in North America for the first time in three decades, reflects the President’s nativist and ...