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

Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ relationship with coastlines.

Necklaces dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic have been recreated from caves in southern Spain, with some of the beads made ...

In 1989, archaeologists excavated Cova Negra cave in Spain and found the skull fragment of a 6-year-old Neanderthal. CT scans revealed inner ear malformations consistent with Down syndrome. Her ...

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

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

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis potentially shakes up ...

The findings are based on a reconstruction of a crushed skull discovered in China in 1990, and have the potential to resolve ...

Genetic and fossil evidence shows that Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans interbred multiple times between 40,000 ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...