Whenever anything is written about the Denisovans, the word "mysterious" is almost guaranteed to appear. That is because we ...

The Denisovan story began in 2010, when genetic material from a finger bone found in Siberia’s Denisova Cave revealed an ...

A replica of a Homo erectus skull. (Attie Gerber/iStockphoto/Getty Images) The fossil record shows that our Homo erectus ...

In the 1960s, a miner working at a mineral extraction site in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, struck something far more valuable than any mineral in the area: a skull with distinctly humanlike features. After ...

For over 60 years, scientists believed they had found some of the oldest human fossils in Japan in the Ushikawa district. But a new study has completely flipped that idea on its head. The bones, which ...

Overview of the excavated track surface with a mix of deeper hippopotamus and antelope footprints and shallower hominin tracks visible. Behrensmeyer has conducted field work in this region since 1969.

Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...

Two molecular studies link the nearly complete Harbin skull, at least 146,000 years old, to the elusive Denisovan lineage.

After spending more than 300,000 years hidden in the ground beneath Morocco, an ancient ancestor has been brought back to life thanks to a stunning digital reconstruction.

A new study documents a set of fossil footprints preserving a snapshot of “fossil behavior” from an ancient hominin group along a lakeshore in northern Kenya around 1.4 million years ago. An ...

Not too long ago, we learned that Hobbit-like humans may have occasionally dined on the leftovers of Komodo dragons. According to a new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, that ...