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

A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East ...

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

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

The discovery of a prehistoric tail-shedding reptile reveals more about large lizard life and lineage during the Late ...

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...

A new study led by Dr. Aurélie Manin from the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford has traced the incredible ...

The so-called "Dragon Man" skull found in China in 1933 sheds light on the ancient human species the Denisovans, about whom ...

In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

Sea anemones may hold the key to the ancient origins of body symmetry. A study from the University of Vienna shows they use a ...

Footprints from Australia show reptiles may have evolved 35 million years earlier than thought, changing the timeline of ...

Two 325-million-year-old ctenacanth shark fossils discovered in Mammoth Cave shed light on ancient marine ecosystems.