A 'lost' species of human has been discovered by scientists who have been surprised by its abnormally large skull and have ...

Denisovans interbred with early humans multiple times, leaving genes that helped modern humans adapt to varied environments, ...

Dr Linda Ongaro, from Trinity's School of Genetics and Microbiology, explains what we know of the hominin species that ...

It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Thanks to advances in DNA ...

Researchers have identified a new species of ancient humans, which they have named Homo juluensis, meaning "big head," based ...

Scientists suggest a "large-headed" group of extinct humans once lived around the same time as homo sapiens more than 100,000 ...

Paleoanthropologist Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and anthropologist Christopher Bae from the ...

Could another group of ancient humans have lived alongside Homo sapiens? A new study suggests that they did, and scientists ...

Remarkably preserved footprints of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei offer direct evidence that extinct hominin species ...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

By Dr Alex Menez The final part of the series in which Dr Alex Menez looks into the Calpe Conference which took place earlier ...