A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

A 146,000-year-old skull, nicknamed thedragon man, has long intrigued scientists. Discovered in the 1930s in Harbin, China, ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Over the past decade, however, the study of ancient DNA, recovered from fossils up to around 400,000 years old, has revealed startling new twists and turns in the story of human history.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists have proposed a new form of ancient humans. The Juluren, or “large head ...

But soon after climbing into the cave, the explorers had stumbled upon what appeared to be a trove of ancient fossils. (Scientists discovered a new kind of human with its pinkie bone. Now we have ...

Learning more about ancient humans is important if we want to understand humanity’s origins. That’s why it is always so exciting when scientists uncover ancient human skulls hidden in fossil ...

Many ancient human ancestors are known from fragments. But about 40 percent of Lucy’s skeleton was recovered, an extraordinary amount for a fossil of this age, which gave the public a way to ...