The extinct human species Homo floresiensis was a scavenger, not a hunter, an analysis of fossil animal bones reveals.

✅ Know Your Terms: Hominin refers to all humans, plus our ancestral species who walked upright on two feet (including members ...

This potentially all-female burial site opens up new questions regarding Homo naledi’s culture and social structure. If the ...

Scientists extracted proteins from Homo naledi teeth for the first time and found evidence that only females were buried.

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...

Scientists analyzed proteins from the teeth of at least 20 Homo naledi individuals and found no male markers, suggesting a ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago? This is the question posed by ...

A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes ...

Modern genetic research is “pushing the boundaries of what’s possible” by bringing extinct animals back to life, but could it ...