This is because the new analysis of the craniums also puts the Denisovans as the most closely related extinct human species to our own lineage. Therefore, if the Denisovans split off over a million ...

A groundbreaking new study suggests that Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over one million years ago - pushing back our species’ origins by some 400,000 years compared with genetic estimates.

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried ...

Nicknamed Elton and formally named Thikarisuchus xenodentes, the fossil reveals a predator no longer than two feet, with a ...

The newly-discovered penguin species went extinct when the ice age hit, but researchers don't think the cold was to blame for their demise.

Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new predatory dinosaur -- the fossils of which contained a crocodile bone ...

Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new predatory dinosaur -- the fossils of which contained a crocodile bone within the dinosaur's mouth.

During the course of evolution, the mammalian cranio-mandibular secondary joint—formed by the dentary condyle and the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and bigger brains. Via a process called encephalization, ...

A new “ apex predator ” dinosaur species has been discovered based on its fossil, unearthed in Argentina with a crocodile ...