Scientists uncovered bone fragments from an ancient child in a Siberian cave estimated to be around ninety thousand years old. Analysis revealed that the girl's mother was a Neanderthal while her ...

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell and ...

On the seabed off the coast of Taiwan, a fisherman’s dredge pulled up more than just marine life. Among the animal remains was something unexpected—a thick, heavy jawbone. For years, the fossil ...

More than a century ago, a skull was pulled from a riverbank in northeastern China. For decades, it sat hidden in a well—forgotten, unknown. The man who found it feared it would fall into the wrong ...

(Matter): In 1980, a Buddhist monk in Tibet entered a sacred cave to pray. On the floor, he found half of a human jawbone, studded with two teeth. A team of scientists reported Wednesday that the ...

Like a distant cousin you only know from stories, the Denisovans are just a hazy, hinted-at presence on the human family tree. We know they lived tens of thousands of years ago in a cave in Siberia's ...