Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the ...

An aging expert thinks humans can live for 20,000 years—and he might not be crazy. There's one major key to unlocking extreme ...

Categorising the Denisovans as a distinct species would allow us to more comprehensively trace our own evolutionary ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out.

Scientists are already for research into synthetic "mirror" lifeforms to be banned outright in order to save humanity.

The Skhul child fossil, about 140,000 years old, combines human-like and Neanderthal-like traits in the skull, jaw, and inner ...

Police said they still believed the man was likely to have been the victim of organised crime, but have yet to identify him - ...

Authorities in Tennessee found Gerald Forsman's badly decomposed body in 2020, but it took DNA evidence and years to ...

Could a natural check on cancer be used to stop the disease? It's possible, but to leverage a system that nature designed, we ...

Authorities have recovered a total of 401 pieces of skeletal remains from the Taal Lake during the search for the missing ...