All in all, more men prefer average-looking women with symmetrical faces. But after all of this research, it becomes more ...

This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full moon, and more.

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...

The fossil, called Penghu 1, is one of the few known pieces of physical evidence from the Denisovans, extinct relatives of ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

Ten years ago, fishermen in Taiwan dredged a jawbone from the seafloor. Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.

A fossil jawbone found by fishers in the Taiwan Strait has extended the known range of ancient Denisovan people thousands of ...

“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Three Americans repatriated to the United States from Congo this week were charged Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department ...