A new explanation has emerged for why Homo sapiens survived in Europe and North Asia when the apparently better-adapted ...

Less good is the fact that Neanderthal DNA can leave individuals predisposed to developing skin lesions called keratoses, ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

The jawbone fragment was pulled up during a fishing expedition in the Penghu Channel, located near the Taiwan Strait.

A US company this week said it had successfully bred three dire wolves, even though the species has been extinct for ...

“That’s a million miles from Neanderthal. It’s a hairy human ... 100 percent genetically identical to a species that is extinct. “But neither is that the goal.

They crawled hesitantly, whimpered softly, and drank from baby bottles — a sight more akin to adorable white puppies than the controversial product of an unprecedented de-extinction initiative.

Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors.

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. “Denisovan fossils are very scarce,” with ...