Thousands of bone fragments discovered in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau in China are offering rare insight into the lives of Denisovans, the mysterious extinct cousins of Neanderthals and our own species, showing they hunted a wide range of animals from sheep…

Homo juluensis lived approximately 300,000 years ago in eastern Asia.

Changing the fate of humanity.

Nature Communications - When hominins dispersed into Eurasia is unclear. Here, the authors present multiple cut-marked bones from Grăunceanu, Romania dated to at least 1.95 million years ago...

Genetic study also reveals blood groups modern humans acquired from Neanderthals

Finds from a cave dating to the Middle Palaeolithic have reshaped our understanding of how early modern humans and Neanderthals interacted.

Meet Penghu 1.

A new analysis of a skeleton uncovered 50 years ago provides some of the earliest evidence of intergroup conflict between humans to date.

Nature - Ancient proteins and calcified dental plaque identify heavy-browed fossil from China as a Denisovan.

Nature - Study of rotting human cadavers hints that a puzzling chemical marker in Neanderthal remains could be from eating the larvae.

Friends or foes?

Newly found engravings of animals on rock outcrops in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud desert show nomads lived there thousands of years ago.

Neanderthals were cannibals.
Copious evidence from the fossil record, spread across time and geography, shows that neanderthals ate each other. Scientists have discovered neanderthal bones that bear t

Wolves, the wild ancestor of dogs, are the only large carnivores that have undergone domestication by humans.

Severe droughts on Flores island likely doomed the tiny Homo floresiensis and their elephant prey around 50,000 years ago, before modern humans arrived.