Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

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

Charlotte Lindqvist is used to handling ancient DNA ... oldest confirmed domestic dogs in the Americas. Still, even that couldn’t fully prepare her for the responsibility she found herself tasked with ...

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.

These hardy people of the ice age, known as the LRJ culture, left behind distinctive stone tools and their own remains ... DNA in some of the ancient Asian fossils. “We still need early modern ...

Fossil Predator Is the Oldest Known Animal With 'Saber ... statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers has revealed new ...

This summer’s paper dated the presence of H. floresiensis back to 700,000 years ago. The team estimated that the individual—an adult—was just 3.28 feet (one meter) tall. The team further suggested ...

Roughly 7,000-year-old cords found in a stunning Spanish cave are Europe's oldest bowstrings made of ... miners in the cave discovered artifacts and human remains within the cave.

THE remains of a man believed to be from "year ... days after scientists claimed to have unearthed the world's oldest human DNA in Europe. In a cave under a medieval castle, 13 bone fragments ...

revealed through fossilized remains unearthed in Germany and the Czech Republic, uncovers a surprising twist in the saga of human migration out of Africa. These genomes are the oldest yet found of ...