Buried in the DNA of the long extinct woolly mammoth is a compound that scientists hope will one day yield a lifesaving ...

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 ...