Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...

Vance Holliday jumped at the invitation to go do geology at New Mexico's White Sands. The landscape, just west of Alamogordo, ...

A sequence of footprints hidden deep within a long-dried paleo‑lake bed were discovered in 2021 by archaeologists, pushing back the purported arrival of early North American settlers between 23,000 an ...

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.

In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

An archeological site Fujia, east China, has provided evidence of a matrilineal society dating back to 2750 to 2500 B.C.E.

Learn about the Sámi people of the Sápmi region, spanning Norway, Sweden, Finland, and northwest Russia, in this week's episode of "Lost Cultures: Living Legacies." ...

A new study reveals the Huns were not of Turkic origin but likely spoke Old Arin, a Palaeo-Siberian language linked to the ...