A new study by a Utah anthropologist, based on genetic evidence, concludes that the colonizers of Sahul arrived later than ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...

A Skull at the Crossroads When initially found, Yunxian 2 was presumed to be an early human ancestor like Homo erectus, the lineage that is well known for migrating out of Africa and walking on two ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

The bones were part of a cache of more than 6,000 recovered fossils. Archaeologists have recovered 140,000-year-old Homo erectus bones from an extinct human species on the ocean floor in Southeast ...

Researchers analysed 2 million-year-old Paranthropus robustus teeth from South Africa, uncovering ancient proteins that ...

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at the same time, a study found. The prints are thought to belong to the species ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo erectus. The digging sticks, curved root-slicers, and a handful of somewhat ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the Neanderthals and Denisovans that our ancestors met ...