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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Wild Kyle joins Rob from Michigan Rocks and their friend Sam at Michigan's Rockport Quarry to search for marine fossils ...

Leo Youngdahl was hoping to find one of his favorite fossils when he turned over a rock at a Nebraska park. Instead, he ...

New research reveals Denisovan fossils in southwestern China alongside stone tools and animal bones, offering the first ...

The Sphinx is one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic monuments, and now scientists have found that it could be hiding a very unusual secret.