Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Two Different Species of Human Ancestors at Same Spot Nov. 28, 2024 — More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming ...

Ancient tooth fossils found in Europe may represent a new chapter in the human origin story. The fossils, which date back more than 7 million years, belonged to an ape-like creature named ...

A biotech company made history with the birth of three genetically engineered wolves: What we know about these prehistoric ...

I’m also a paleontologist, and I’m involved in this idea of the Anthropocene: that humans are changing the geology of the Earth in a big way. We worked on the question of what kind of fossils ...

Wu and Bae argue this misses the point. These fossils, they say, belong to a distinct group with its own role in the human family tree. The Juluren lived between 300,000 and 50,000 years ago.

A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Two Different Species of Human Ancestors at Same Spot Nov. 28, 2024 — More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. “Denisovan fossils are very scarce,” with ...

Billions of chickens are bred, slaughtered and discarded each year – leaving behind one of the most distinctive fossil records of the human age. AP - Sven Kaestner "They're going to see bones ...