A Neanderthal artefact found in a cave in the Caucasus Mountains is the oldest bone spear tip ever found in Europe, a new ...

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

English is the only language that turned Neanderthals, the long extinct Paleolithic hominin, into an insult and epithet. Since the naming of “Neanderthal Man” after the discovery of a skull ...

This might have contributed to why humans lived and Neanderthals went extinct. “This is something that is deeply rooted in Homo sapiens,” says Slimak. “This new way that Homo sapiens behaved was super ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, ...

An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought, according to new research by a UCD -based archaeologist.

Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this ...

However, efforts to tie past extinction events to such weakening have largely failed. A possible exception involves the Neanderthals, who appear to have gone extinct (aside from their legacy in ...

Out-competed by the Cro-Magnon, Neanderthals would become extinct. According to Potts, climate change was the instrument of their demise. Around 33,000 years ago, the Neanderthal, who migrated ...

Do you think you could live alongside dodos and woolly mammoths? Colossal Biosciences thinks you can. The biotech company, which claims it recently resurrected the dire wolf, focuses on “de-extinction ...