The modern-day Bo people of southeastern China have long maintained that they had no connection to those inside the hanging ...

Recent archaeological findings in the Sahara Desert have unveiled a tantalizing glimpse into a long-lost lineage of ancient ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

An ancient, shared set of human-specific genes underwent changes in a geographically isolated population after around 300,000 years ago, scientists say.

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...