What you'll discover in this article... ・Using ancient DNA recovered from bone fragments, researchers discovered a new ...

Humans think of themselves as exceptional among the creatures inhabiting Earth. But it wasn’t always so. Multiple groups of humans once co-existed with Homo sapiens, including Neanderthals and the ...

The Denisovans, a mysterious group of extinct hominins closely related to Neanderthals, didn’t leave much fossil evidence behind. A fresh dig at their former stomping grounds in Siberia has now ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a species different from that of the famous fossil Lucy providing further proof ...

The ability to study ancient DNA has revolutionized our ability to understand our own species’ past. It has clarified our relationship with Neanderthals and revealed the existence of Denisovans. But ...

Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going. Fossilized footprints preserved in rock do the same – they record instants ...

In 2010, researchers who had extracted DNA from an ancient finger bone revealed that it belonged to a previously unknown human relative. The fossil, recovered from Denisova Cave in Siberia, came from ...