Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

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

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

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Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

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New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.