On Earth today, there is only one species of humans. Us. Homo sapiens to use our scientific term. But this was not always the ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Dec. 23, 2023 and was updated on Dec. 11, 2024 to include information from the 2024 paper arguing that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens should be ...

The major difference between Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal indicates that Neanderthals were outcompeted by the former.

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large ...

A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100 ...

A fossil site of footprints in Kenya reveal a run-in of earlier hominins more than a million years before the rise of Homo ...

New research reveals that Neanderthal genes entered our own DNA within the past 50,000 years, rewriting the story of how Homo sapiens spread across the world. The Homo sapiens fossils found beneath ...

This allowed us to build a more complete picture of the past." Archaeologists had already ascertained that Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) showed up in Europe at least 400,000 years ago ...

But Wu and Bae have taken a closer look, and they say the features of some fossils found in China cannot be easily assigned to modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans, or Homo erectus, the ...