Workers digging a pipeline in Argentina found the flattened skull of an ancient toddler, raising questions about its ...

"I asked my very experienced boss if he had ever seen that before, and he hadn't. So, I asked if he thought she was still ...

Found in the Chega Sofla cemetery in Iran, the skull appears to have been struck by a blunt object. Archaeologists don't know ...

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In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in ...

Molecular sleuthing has tied the more‑than‑146,000‑year‑old Harbin cranium, known as "Dragon Man," to this hidden branch of humanity.

A near-complete skull of a Denisovan, one of the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, has never been recovered – or so ...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery of the ancient 'Dragon Man', confirming that this 146,000-year-old skull belonged ...

After she was granted access to the skull, the first thing Fu did was look for DNA, specifically in the teeth and the petrous bone, a dense part of the skull near the inner ear that is known to be ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human skull to Denisovan DNA. That skull, called the Harbin cranium, is over 146,000 ...

The research team conducted independent palaeoproteomic analyses and innovative ancient DNA experiments on the Harbin cranium and its dental calculus. For the first time, their findings conclusively ...