Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by ...

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

A new study reveals that early human ancestors nearly went extinct between 930,000 and 813,000 years ago, with just 1,280 ...

The industry’s pawprints are all over the buzzy de-extincted canine, with famous investors including Peter Jackson and George ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Ancient Taiwan jawbone fossil confirms Denisovan presence, expanding their range across East and Southeast Asia regions.

"We can identity Neanderthal elements and Denisovan elements" in the DNA of some people alive today, said Tsutaya. Scientists still don't know exactly why Denisovans went extinct. "We have so ...

an evolutionary molecular biologist who took part in a previous study of dire wolf DNA, told AFP. "It would be like me putting a couple of genes into you from Neanderthals that made you extra ...

“We can identity Neanderthal elements and Denisovan elements" in the DNA of some people alive today, said Tsutaya.

An analysis of a jawbone found off the Taiwanese coast reveals it belonged to a Denisovan, a mysterious human species that contributed some genetic material to Indigenous Australians and people living ...