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 ...

It took a while, but researchers believe they now have a molecular marker to reliably spot Denisovan fossils. Compared with ...

Scientists have reconstructed the face of a 315,000-year-old Homo sapiens using ancient fossils from Morocco and modern 3D ...

Scientists have found fossilized bones, skull parts, they’ve even found traces of their genes in people alive today. But what ...

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

Take the kids on a prehistoric adventure at South Africa's fossil trails, dinosaur centres and ancient sites, with ...

(Cícero Moraes) Scientists have used human fossils from Morocco to create a digital face from around 315,000 years ago. The result offers a glimpse of what some of the earliest known members of our ...

Researchers report in Nature 1 today that they have an even better idea of what Denisovans looked like after analysing the physical features of remains that belong to a collection of 20 fossils found ...

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Chris Stringer (UCL Archaeology) explains that DNA from Neanderthals and Denisovans ...

Archaeologists have recovered Neanderthal DNA from six hand-bone fragments found in Abauntz Cave, Navarre, in what ...