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

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

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

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

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 ...

Barracudas are famously fearsome, streamlined marine hunters. They belong to the Sphyraenidae family of fish and are known ...

Capybaras are some of nature’s most interesting animals, known for their sweet personalities and unique social bonds. Florida ...

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

Teeth can tell a life’s story, even when they’re 150 million years old. One of the new frontiers in paleontological research ...

"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 ...

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