Ancient proteins link two Xujiayao fossil fragments to Denisovans, revealing more about their skull anatomy and supporting a broader East Asian presence.

Extracting proteins from organs that survived thousands of years offers fresh insight into ancient health, diet, and daily life. When imagining what archaeologists find during excavations of ancient ...

Discoveries under Lake Mendota are helping scientists better understand early human life in North America. Researchers have found ancient wooden canoes resting at the bottom of the lake, showing that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient Denisovan leg bones found beneath the sea offer scientists a rare look at the size and build of this mysterious extinct ...

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...

Arrowheads and wooden darts found by researches in the San Esteban Rockshelter area of the park. Photo courtesy of Center for Big Bend Studies An ancient human’s hunting kit castoffs found in ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

For the first time, scientists have recovered ancient human DNA from cave walls. The search took place at caves throughout Spain and Portugal known for prehistoric paintings, including Spain’s famed ...

Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...