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

In 1903, workers digging a ditch in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, England uncovered the astonishingly well-preserved remains ...

A few days later, the New York Times reported, “A person who died about 20,000 years ago and was buried beneath a pile of rocks may provide scientists with the oldest human skeleton found in ...

UNBELIEVABLE three-million-year-old razor-sharp vegetable peelers used by the world’s oldest humans have been discovered. The ...

An international team has now sequenced the oldest modern human genomes to ... "They also indicate that any modern human remains found outside Africa that are older than 50,000 years could not ...

The human remains, which may be around 8,000 years old, were found in China next to a pit containing numerous turtle shell rattles.

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Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.