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 ...

This week, scientists digging in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have discovered a new species of pachycephalosaur that pushes back ...

Unlike Neanderthals, whose remains lack signs of cold-weather gear, Homo sapiens left a clearer trail. According to Shea, ...

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

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

The coelacanth is a legendary type of fish often mistakenly referred to as a “living fossil.” Despite originating during the Devonian period around 350 million years ... Continue Reading → ...

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared many similarities. But Neanderthals disappeared, while Homo sapiens evolved into modern ...

Scientists believe they're close to solving an ancient mystery involving a strange hominin skull that was neither Neanderthal nor human found fused to a cave wall with a stalagmite sticking out of the ...

The Petralona skull was found fused to a cave wall in Greece. © Macedonian Heritage, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a fossil in Morocco of a dinosaur species that roamed the plains of northern Africa at least 165 million years ago, featuring a dangerous tail and "extreme" armor. A group ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era.