Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch
A model of a Neanderthal woman Joe McNally/Getty Modern humans may indeed have wiped out Neanderthals – but…
Million-year-old fossil changes what we know about human hands and feet
For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for…
Prehistoric Skull Found Fused to Cave Wall May Have Belonged to Mysterious Ancient Hominid
In 1960, a villager found something terrifyingly creepy in Greece’s Petralona cave—a humanoid cranium with a protrusion on…
Denisovan Mucus Gene May Have Helped Humans Survive in The Americas
Our ancestors are known to have gotten frisky with other, now-extinct species of humans, leaving traces in our…