Anthropologists have been arguing for 20 years about whether Sahelanthropus, a hominin that lived about 7 million years ago, ...

What is Denisovan DNA? 01:56 An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday.. Relatively little is ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes ...

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being dredged for a construction project This is ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: During the glacial period that chilled the Earth 140,000 years ago, sea levels in the Indonesian region of Sundaland were low enough for ...

These human ancestors weren’t as lonely as experts thought. ... that the global sea level averaged nearly 1,100 feet lower than it does today. Because of this, ...

These human ancestors would have had plenty to take advantage of near these ancient rivers. ... When sea levels rose, the land bridges between the islands of Sundaland were submerged, ...

Ancient jawbone found on seafloor belongs to mysterious group of human ancestors. ... and how the shallow sea extends out, near where a fossil jawbone was found in the Penghu Channel.

Our human ancestors learned to sail half a million years ago, ... The Aegean Sea is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, located to the east of the Greek mainland and the western coast of Turkey, ...

One of the few things we know about Denisovans is that they interbred with both Neanderthals and modern humans. As such, some people today have genes passed down from distant Denisovan ancestors ...

These human ancestors would have had plenty to take advantage of near these ancient rivers. Trees bore fruit all year, and the ancient hominins would have been able to gather edible plants in ...

Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being dredged for a construction project This is ...