Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage — a discovery ...

An expanding geographic range for these close Neandertal relatives leaves Denisovans' evolutionary status uncertain.

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

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists ...

Anthropologists have said human beings evolved in a straight line from Homo habilis to Homo erectus to us, Homo sapiens, over two million years. But fossil bones found in 2000 near Lake Turkana in ...

The third confirmed location of extinct hominins known as Denisovans shows these human cousins adapted to an impressive range of environments ...

A BABY mammoth has gone under the knife – after being preserved in Siberian permafrost for 130,000 years. Russian scientists carried out a necropsy on the long-dead mammoth calf, nicknamed Yana.

Help find Michele Romano/Facebook Authorities said human remains found last week in Rhode Island have been identified as belonging to a woman who went missing eight months earlier — and ...

The oldest-known human bones in Europe were just discovered in a cave in Bulgaria. The cave also contained ancient tools ...

TORNADOES, volcanic winters and 70-foot tsunamis aren’t the first words that come to mind when you think: Britain. But our ...

Australian mother of three, Tayla Spies, was last seen on Feb. 2. The remains, which have yet to be identified, were discovered on Friday, April 4 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter ...

Human remains have been discovered near a rural property in Australia amid the search for missing 29-year-old Tayla Spies, who hasn't been seen since Feb. 2 The remains are yet to be formally ...