Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

A 200,000-year-old molar from Denisova Cave has provided a glimpse into the life of Denisovans, revealing startling new ...

Neanderthals and humans mated millennia ago, and their legacy lives on in us today. Here's how. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies, naturally preserved and buried in the Libyan Sahara, were discovered at the Takarkori rock ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

Dining culture has shifted away from stuffy appearances and moved toward having a good time, but you might still have some of ...

In a revealing Genomic Press Interview published today in Genomic Psychiatry, Dr. Maria Margarita Behrens recounts an extraordinary scientific journey that wound through four countries and multiple ...