Paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey, the granddaughter of Mary and Louis Leakey, who first determined that early humans evolved ...

The fossil expands the Denisovan's known range by thousands of kilometres and provides new insights into how this species ...

An ancient human jawbone dredged from the bottom of the Taiwan Strait has been confirmed as a Denisovan fossil, proving that ...

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

“We seem to have ended up with these sort of quite large, relatively long-lived voracious cannibals that are just ideally suited to control the numbers of their own species,” Rick ...

And they're cute as hell." The large wolf species roamed the Americas for more than 100,000 years, before going extinct some 13,000 years ago. It was believed to have hunted large prey like ...

The area where ribosomal RNA is located is referred to as the "nucleolar organizer region (NOR)," and the research team also confirmed that the number of NORs varies by hominid species.

The Appendices of the Convention provide the lists of wild species that are protected by the Convention. In the introductory text here we should add : Appendix I includes wild flora species and ...

The birth of these pups is not the return of an extinct species. Instead, it’s a demonstration of how far we’ve come in the toolkit of synthetic biology (a field that involves redesigning systems ...

This groundbreaking achievement marks the first de-extinction of a species, reviving the dire wolf after 12,500 years. The pups exhibit distinctive features of the extinct creature, opening doors ...

Lasting from about 2.6 million to 200,000 years ago, the Lower Palaeolithic – or Early Stone Age – saw the emergence of stone and bone tool production among ancient hominid species.

Florida is unfortunately home to a lot of uninvited guests — especially invasive species. But there might be another way to control their rapidly increasing populations. The U.S. Fish and ...