When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are "Neanderthal deserts" in human chromosomes.

Geneticists have found an interesting pattern in how early humans and Neanderthals interbred—and it wasn't balanced.

Christopher Lean receives funding from the Australian Government through the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology (project number CE200100029). Andrew James Latham has been supported by a ...

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had "resurrected" the dire wolf, a megafauna-hunting wolf species that had been extinct for 10,000 years. Within two days ...

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A digging stick and a tiny tool of unknown purpose are among the oldest handheld wooden tools ever found. The objects, from 430,000 years ago, indicate early human ancestors were using wood for tools, ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...

In the mid-1990s, archaeologists unearthed a piece of elephant bone from a site in southern England. It didn’t look like much at the time, so they set it aside in the collection of the Natural History ...

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus “A finding like this does give hope,” says William ...

Joseph Ogutu is a Senior Statistician and Researcher at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. He is affiliated with The Greater Serengeti-Mara Conservation Society and the One Mara ...