Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

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Imagine standing face-to-face with a Neanderthal, looking into eyes that reflect a world both alien and achingly familiar.

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We are building a museum near Shanidar Cave to preserve all the archaeological pieces found there. If the museum is completed by year’s end, Shanidar Z will be placed there," said Soran Amir, head of ...

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They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively—they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a ...

These adorable little animals look like white puppies, not the fruit of a daring science project to resuscitate an extinct ...

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

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, a team of researchers announced that it belonged to a Denisovan, a member of a mysterious lineage of humans related to Neanderthals. The discovery significantly expands the range of ...