Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains is the only spot on the planet that’s known to have been lived in by Denisovans, ...

The Lapedo Child was a four-year-old who was discovered in Portugal in 1998 who showed genetic traits from both Neanderthals ...

Some believed that waves of technologically superior hunter-gatherers had spelled the doom of their heavy-foreheaded cousins, ...

His genome diverged from those of other late Neanderthals around 105,000 years ago. That’s a staggering timespan. Thorin’s ...

Recent testing shows the remains are around 28,000 years old, which supports the idea that these populations did more than ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

Indian scientists at ZSI have pioneered a groundbreaking method using DNA metabarcoding to decode spider-parasitoid relationships directly from egg sacs. This innovative approach, published in ...

Deep in the Caucasus Mountains in southwestern Russia, a Neanderthal cave revealed a unique tool. Getty/iStock photo Tens of thousands of years ago, an ancient people left their possessions in a ...

VIENNA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ribbon Bio GmbH, the DNA synthesis company, today announced the launch of MiroSynth™ DNA, its first commercial product designed to meet the growing demand for complex ...

LONGTAN, CHINA—CNN reports that stone tools synonymous with Neanderthals were discovered at the Longtan site in southwest China's Yunnan Province—but no Neanderthal is thought to have ever ...

Archaeologists working in Europe have found the oldest-known bone spear in Europe, dating back to the Neanderthal age between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago, according to a study published in the ...