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

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

Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...

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.

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 analysis of the ancient human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico offers more evidence that they are ...