Recent work has also revealed that Homo sapiens interbred with three separate Denisovan populations. As a consequence, all ...

Researchers have identified a new species of ancient humans, which they have named Homo juluensis, meaning "big head," based ...

Denisovans interbred with early humans multiple times, leaving genes that helped modern humans adapt to varied environments, ...

Scientists suggest a "large-headed" group of extinct humans once lived around the same time as homo sapiens more than 100,000 ...

Dr Linda Ongaro, from Trinity's School of Genetics and Microbiology, explains what we know of the hominin species that ...

Paleoanthropologist Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and anthropologist Christopher Bae from the ...

Could another group of ancient humans have lived alongside Homo sapiens? A new study suggests that they did, and scientists ...

For much of our history, we coexisted with other members of our genus, and our prehistoric ancestors didn’t waste the opportunity to hook up with their Neanderthal and Denisovan relatives.

It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Thanks to advances in DNA ...

Subscribe for FREE “Unlike Neanderthal remains, the Denisovan fossil record consists of only that finger bone, a jawbone, teeth, and skull fragments. But by leveraging the surviving Denisovan segments ...