An early human species – the Denisovans – who went extinct 25,000 years ago – lived across more of the world than was thought ...

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

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

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 ...

Understanding the differences between Neanderthal and modern human faces sheds light on our own evolution.

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

In a time long before cities, farms, or even written words, early humans across the Levant were already shaping a complex ...

The fossil was recovered by fishermen at the Penghu Channel off the coast of Taiwan and could be the most complete fossil of ...

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost ...

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

Scientists have identified an ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan as belonging to the Denisovans, an elusive group of early ...