Scientists say they've found the remains of a prehistoric female whose mother was a Neanderthal and whose father belonged to another extinct group of human relatives known as Denisovans...

The remains of 13 Chinese men unearthed in northeast Nevada more than two decades ago will finally be reburied in the Carlin City Cemetery...

Two new studies from Spain provide the strongest evidence yet that Neanderthals created art...

Researchers found a jaw in an Israeli cave, indicating that modern humans left Africa as much as 100,000 years earlier than previously thought...

Rare skeleton of human ancestor displayed in South Africa; said to be 3.6 million years old...

Researchers say some human traits that are linked to sunlight, including a person's mood and sleep patterns, may be influenced by their Neanderthal forefathers...

A species belonging to the human family tree whose remnants were first discovered in a South African cave in 2013 lived several hundred thousand years ago, indicating that the creature was alive at th...

Trying to explain cases of cannibalism among our evolutionary forerunners is a scientific challenge...

Dental plaque shows Neanderthal diet of woolly rhino in Belgium, mushrooms and moss in Spain...

Scientists have grown human cells inside pig embryos, a very early step toward the goal of growing livers and other human organs in animals to transplant into people...