Until now, the phenotypic diversity among European hunter-gatherers was only known from a small number of fossils and was thought to be fairly homogeneous,” said Dr. Maïté Rivollat, lead geneticist of ...

In these decades, one of the most intriguing puzzles in paleoanthropology has been the Harbin skull known as “Dragon Man.” ...

Homo sapiens — mingled and interbred with other prehistoric humans: our distant cousins, the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell and ...

Isabelle De Groote, an archaeologist at Ghent University who leads the research project on Mesolithic Belgium, told CNN that ...

Recently discovered bones of a basilosaurus in Mississippi offer insight into its life and what happened after its death.

But exactly when that happened remains under debate. However, most claims of extremely old fossilized life kick up controversy. The creatures that flourished in ancient seas may have looked quite ...