A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

The fossil expands the Denisovan's known range by thousands of kilometres and provides new insights into how this species ...

Palaeontologists have discovered fossils of two previously unknown species of coniferous trees, dating back 100 million years ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of two previously unknown conifer species dating back 100 million years in ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...