The Denisovans are the first species of archaic humans that have been discovered based on their DNA. Were they a race of ...

Researchers Categorize New Human Species After Fossils Found in China Reveal a Group That Vanished 50,000 Years Ago Extensive ...

The newfound species belongs to the genus Paranthropus, whose nickname is "nutcracker man." ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...

Orangutans live only in the jungles of Indonesia. But humans live pretty much everywhere. Our species has spread across frozen tundras, settled on mountaintops and called other extreme ...

"I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed," Petro raged. "Maybe one day, ...