Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Columnist and Humans Ancient humans understood the future and the past pretty much as we do Sticks found in a cave that date back 12,000 years and other archaeological evidence show how humans ...

Origins Mysterious Ancient Humans Now Have a Face Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque.

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

First Near-Complete Denisovan Skull Reveals What This Ancient Human Cousin Looked Like A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time.

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.

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago.

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday. Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an ...

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found ...

A new study says early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago.