Scientists find several building blocks of life on Bennu, an extraterrestrial asteroid, whose samples were collected by a ...

A new study maps 40,000 years of Denisovan and human interbreeding, showing how ancient DNA spread, faded, and shaped ...

A startling discovery has reignited one of science’s oldest questions: where did life truly begin? Researchers analyzing a ...

Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in the study of the first humans on Earth, who lived approximately 2.75 ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates, according to researchers.

Another surprising finding from this study concerns the ancient Jomon people from the Japanese archipelago and the ...

This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

A skull, unearthed nearly a century ago, has led to new revelations in the study of human evolution. Known as “Dragon Man,” the fossil has now been identified as belonging to the Denisovans — a ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...