Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

This is because the new analysis of the craniums also puts the Denisovans as the most closely related extinct human species ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...

Homo sapiens might have been the dominant species on the planet for millennia, but it wasn't always that way. When the first Homo sapiens emerged around 300,000 years ago, our ancestors were just one ...

Genetic research shows Neanderthals carried variants for red hair, freckles, and pale skin, while others had darker complexions. Populations living further north evolved lighter tones for vitamin D ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...