Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this ...

Their research, published in Environmental Sciences Europe on Tuesday, shows these microplastics promote crystallisation of ...

While saving these species from extinction provides hope for the future, Dr Sophia Nicolov, AHRC Career Fellow and ...

Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.

Early bipeds, such as Ardipithecus kadabba which looked a bit like a gorilla, lived in Africa between 5.8 and 5.2 million years ago. They lived in mosaic habits (a mixture of open and wooded ...

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

Paradigm-shattering discovery reveals that the relationship between early humans and Neanderthals was more complex than ...

Early human migration timeline into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first ...

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

Archaeologists also found a number of other artifacts at the site – including the bones of a different dog, the remains of a ...

A question that we have all asked ourselves at some time is what will happen when human beings become extinct or what species ...