Denisovans were first identified not from a skull or skeleton, but from DNA extracted from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in Siberia. Since then, researchers have confirmed that this extinct ...

All humans today are members of the modern human species Homo sapiens — Latin for "knowing man." But we're far from the only humans who ever existed. Fossils are revealing more and more about early ...

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

The generally accepted theory of the spread of ancient humans from Africa, where they first evolved, known as “Out of Africa,” holds that a single species, Homo erectus, subsequently migrated to ...

The stone tools were found at the Lingjing archaeological site in central China. An early human species called Homo juluensis ...