Based on chemical analysis of Neanderthal remains, it seemed like they’d been feasting on as much meat as apex predators such ...

Archaeologists working at the Tinshemet Cave in Israel believe they’ve discovered one of the world’s oldest human burial ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down to the genes some of us have inherited from ...

Once, Earth was home to diverse human species, not just Homo sapiens. Fossil evidence reveals at least 21 early human species, including Neanderthals and Denisovans, coexisted and even interbred with ...

The debate around the evolution of modern humans has sparked up new arguments after new information has come to light about Homo sapiens fossils found in East Africa. When looking at the origins of ...

Scientists uncovered how ancient blood groups helped Homo sapiens as compared to Neanderthals in their survival and spread ...

According to new CT scans and models, parts of the 140,000-year-old skull resemble those of modern humans, while the jaw appears to be more similar to those of our extinct relatives ...

The body parts of the child belong to Homo antecessor, believed to be the last common ancestor of both Homo sapiens and ...

A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, the time period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...