Until now, researchers had never identified a Denisovan radius — one of the two long bones of the forearm. The ancient humans ...

More than 400,000-year-old Homo erectus teeth from China may reveal a surprising link between this ancient human species, Denisovans, and some modern people. Scientists found protein mutations ...

Seven Denisovan fossils from Bianfu Cave in southwest China have opened an unusually detailed window onto a vanished archaic human population. Dating from about 167,000 to 134,000 years ago, the finds ...

Archaic human parents had to look after helpless infants like modern-day parents do, according to new research. Human babies are born less developed than those of other great apes and are therefore ...

Not too long ago, we learned that Hobbit-like humans may have occasionally dined on the leftovers of Komodo dragons. According to a new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, that ...

A cave in southwestern China has yielded seven fossils that belonged to an enigmatic population of extinct humans known as ...

For over 60 years, scientists believed they had found some of the oldest human fossils in Japan in the Ushikawa district. But a new study has completely flipped that idea on its head. The bones, which ...

The study has found genetic evidence that modern humans have inherited DNA from two previously unidentified extinct ...

An abandoned quarry in southwestern China has given scientists a portal into the Stone Age. The site’s trove of fossils and artefacts provides an unprecedented glimpse into the lives and abilities of ...

Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico.