They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

Some modern humans carry Neanderthal gene variants that affect how their bodies metabolize common medications. This explains ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

The identification of a gray wolf in Otsego County several years ago has received additional attention in recent weeks, with ...

Although wolf-canine interbreeding has been considered extremely rare, the latest research shows that many present-day ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Humans ferried pigs across thousands of Pacific islands for millennia, reshaping ecosystems and blurring the line between ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Homo sapiens was basically infected by these viruses for all of its existence," the scientist added. As per the outlet, ...

Parents in a New Mexico county are worried their children might get attacked by wolves so they've built cage-like shelters ...