Archaeologists have uncovered a prehistoric site in South America where hunter-gatherers butchered a now-extinct elephant relative more than 12,000 years ago. A study, published in the open-access ...

(Reuters) - Thousands of bone fragments discovered in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau in China are offering rare insight into the lives of Denisovans, the mysterious extinct cousins of Neanderthals and ...

Bone remains found in a Tibetan cave 3,280 m above sea level indicate an ancient group of humans survived here for many millennia, according to a new study published in Nature. The Denisovans are an ...

DNA has shown that the extinct humans thrived around the world, from chilly Siberia to high-altitude Tibet — perhaps even in the Pacific islands. By Carl Zimmer Leer en español Neanderthals may have ...

July 3 (Reuters) - Thousands of bone fragments discovered in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau in China are offering rare insight into the lives of Denisovans, the mysterious extinct cousins of ...

Ancient humans hunted a now-extinct species of elephant 12,000 years ago in Chile, according to a new study. Photo from PLOS One Thousands of years ago, early humans were hunting massive animals in ...

Scientists are suggesting that a “large-headed” group of extinct humans once lived during the same time as homo sapiens — that’s us, of course — hundreds of millennia ago in what’s now modern-day ...

Extinct foxes and other animals were an important part of early South American communities, a new study has found. By Jack Tamisiea When roving bands of hunter-gatherers domesticated the wolves ...

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Learn about the overlap between archaic humans that once lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the modern humans ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...