When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

Well-preserved genomes show a “rare” leprosy strain thriving in ancient Chile, rewriting when and where Hansen’s Disease ...

Archaeologists searching under a toppled tree in the Amazon discovered seven funerary urns buried beneath the roots. Of the ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

When piecing together the cultural practices of ancient humans, traditional archaeologists rely on clues from artifacts such ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy, was long believed to be absent from the Americas prior to European contact. A new ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...