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

A new study led by Dr. Aurélie Manin from the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford has traced the incredible ...

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...

In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

Modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: the ...

New genetic research has traced the paternal line of Poland’s first royal dynasty, challenging long-held national traditions ...

Scientists have extracted genetic information from 400 medieval burials that date between the eighth and eighteenth centuries ...

Secrets of medieval kings revealed by DNA from 900-year-old skeletons - New DNA evidence unsettles a nation’s founding myth ...

In this Journal Club, Diyendo Massilani recalls two studies by Meyer et al. that reported a mitochondrial genome and nuclear DNA sequences from mid-Ice Age Sima de los Huesos hominins.