Researchers extracted ancient proteins from six archaic humans and found something in common with other extinct relatives—and ...

Chinese scientists obtain the first molecular evidence of interbreeding between our ancestor ‘Homo erectus’ and the ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers. Inside our cells and microbiomes, researchers are uncovering entities that ...

When researchers in China announced a possible new human species from a cave in Hebei province, they did more than add another name to our already crowded family tree. They introduced a population ...

Dr. Martin's team is the first to have challenged the species attribution of Little Foot since it was unveiled in 2017. "Our findings challenge the current classification of Little Foot and highlight ...