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

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

Discovered in Denisova Cave in Siberia, this extinct human species lived from 300,000 to 40,000 years ago. DNA from a single finger bone revealed they interbred with both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...