Stone and water together shaped where early humans settled in Arabia’s desert, study finds
Early humans crossed the world’s largest sand sea with plenty of fresh water around, yet they left nothing…
Large Megapode Bird Identified from Flores Cave Bone
A new species of extinct megapode bird — a ground-dwelling relative of the chicken that was several times…
Denisovans had a distinctive look, protein and skull study suggests
Scientists in China have pulled ancient proteins from two bones found at the Xujiayao site and learned the…
Researchers Reconstruct Face of Oldest Known Homo sapiens
Scientists have created a digital facial approximation of the Jebel Irhoud hominin, whose remains are dated to about…
Denisovans Once Roamed Southwest China, New Fossils Reveal
Paleoanthropologists have identified a trove of Denisovan fossils from a cave in China’s Yunnan province, extending the known…
Ancient DNA Rewrites Story of Enigmatic ‘American Cheetah’
For several decades, paleontologists have described Miracinonyx trumani — an extinct species of cheetah-like felid that roamed the…
Paleontologists Identify New Species of Glyptodont
An incomplete fossilized skull that has sat in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark since…
Denisovans Were Surprisingly Tall, New Fossils from Taiwan Suggest
Two fossilized leg bones of Denisovans — an extinct archaic Homo group whose lineage diverged from the Neanderthal…
Scientists Find Traces of Two Unknown Archaic Hominins in Human DNA
New research led by the University of California, Berkeley reveals that beyond Neanderthals and Denisovans, humans interbred with…
Japanese Fossil Bee Fills Two-Million-Year Gap in Honeybee History
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new fossil honeybee species that fills a long-standing gap in the…
50,000-year-old DNA from South African antelope rewrites limits of ancient DNA preservation
Scientists have recovered ancient DNA from a 50,000-year-old antelope tooth found in South Africa, pushing back the age…
Fossils from Chinese Cave Fill Crucial Gap in History of Gigantopithecus blacki
Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilized teeth belonging…