The study challenges the idea that the climate of northern Africa dried out around 3 million years ago, a time when the ...

The Denisova Cave, located in the Bashelaksky Range of the Altai Mountains in Siberia, Russia, is a significant site for ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

Despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians, what Denisovans looked like has remained an ...

The Harbin skull confirms Denisovan ancestry and expands their known range using protein and DNA analysis from dental calculus. What did Denisovans look like, despite their known genetic contributions ...

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.

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Ancient DNA analysis reveals a previously unknown group of hunter-gatherers who lived near present-day Bogotá, Colombia, about 6,000 years ago. This group is genetically distinct from both ...