This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

Thirty years ago, astronomers weren’t sure planets beyond our solar system even existed. This year, NASA has confirmed its ...

During the Japanese invasion of northern China in 1933, a man was hired to build a bridge across the Songhua river near the city of Harbin. As he was digging, he found a large, ancient cranium ...

The mysteries of our ancient ancestors—Neanderthals and Denisovans—have long fascinated scientists. Recent research has offered an unexpected peek into their genetics by introducing ancient genes into ...

The story begins in China, almost a million years ago, when a human-like skull, now called Yunxian 2, became buried in river soil. When scientists first uncovered it, some decades ago, excitement ...

How did civilization arise, and was it gifted to humanity in some manner? Two popular theories seem to provide answers. One is that civilization arose as a result of the survivors of sunken Atlantis ...

New fossil and DNA studies reveal that interbreeding between Neanderthals, Denisovans, and early Homo sapiens occurred multiple times during the late Pleistocene. Hybrids like “Denny,” born of a ...

A 146,000-year-old skull recovered near Harbin, China, by scientists decades ago has now been found to belong to the Denisovans, an extinct relation to modern humans who lived in Siberia and East Asia ...

Thousands of years ago, groups of ancient people made the dangerous journey across the icy land bridge of the Bering Strait into the Americas. They carried tools, traditions, and survival skills with ...

During the last Ice Age, modern humans had ongoing encounters with more than one variety of now-extinct Pleistocene-era hominin. Those encounters, according to new research, not only resulted in ...

A gene called ADSL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings could shed light on why Neanderthals vanished. When you purchase through ...