In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

After 15 years, we know the first Denisovan skull.” With these words, Qiaomei Fu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced a paradigm-shifting moment in human evolution research, as molecular ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

But deep inside the cave, they found something completely unexpected—a human skull. Experts later named the skull Maba 1.

Two new studies published in Science and Cell have shed light on a mysterious skull found in China, and in the process have ...

Denisovans, Neanderthals, and early Homo sapiens coexisted and even interbred, leaving behind traces of their DNA in modern humans. In fact, many people today carry small amounts of Denisovan DNA, a ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

Researchers studying the remains of a prehistoric woman who lived around 10,500 years ago in what is now Belgium have produced a reconstruction of her face using ancient DNA.

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? At a glance, Maba 1 seems like any other skull fragment—and that is the whole ...

FACE OF BONES True face of ‘alien’ reconstructed by scientists after bizarre 1,500-year-old elongated skull found buried in village ...