Pigment sampling at a claviform rock art figure in Tebellín, Spain. (Alberto Martínez Villa/Bossoms Mesa et al., Nat. Commun.

Genomic analysis of ancient and modern human DNA has exposed a striking pattern in how Neanderthal genes entered the human ...

Arguably one of the most curious ancient human relatives is Homo floresiensis, a 3-foot-tall species that lived on the ...

In a first, scientists recovered human DNA from ancient cave paintings, a breakthrough that could open new ways to ...

An ancient human ancestor called Homo floresiensis was likely a scavenger who subsisted on the scraps left behind by the ...

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

Researchers have, for the first time, recovered ancient human DNA directly from cave walls, with one key sample coming from a ...

Scientists extracted proteins from Homo naledi teeth for the first time and found evidence that only females were buried.

A new Homo floresiensis study suggests the extinct "hobbit" scavenged Komodo dragon kills instead of hunting large prey or ...

A new study led by Alexandra Morton-Hayward explains how low-oxygen burial conditions lead to human brain preservation for thousands of years.