For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian—the ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

The researchers carefully compared the newly discovered teeth with known specimens of Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy’s species) and early Homo. They found that these teeth belonged to both early ...

A newly discovered Denisovan gene, hidden within human DNA, may have helped the first Americans adapt to their new world. Thousands of years ago, early humans braved a dangerous migration, traveling ...

Amid the soaring peaks and meandering rivers of Tràng An, Vietnam, a 12,000-year-old skeleton was recently found buried in a cave. The body was in relatively good condition for its age, representing a ...

Scientists have discovered what they believe to be an 1.8-million-year-old jawbone from an early species of human.

Scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest evidence of human-Neanderthal interbreeding: a 140,000-year-old child from ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Recent archaeological discoveries have unveiled ruins believed to be part of a civilization dating back 20,000 years, ...

Long before modern humans appeared in Africa about 300,000 years ago, our ancestors faced a crisis that almost ended the lineage entirely. A groundbreaking study has revealed that between 930,000 and ...