A small bone fragment from Denisova Cave in Siberia turned out to belong to a 13-year-old girl who lived around 90,000 years ...

Neanderthals split into distinct regional groups that developed genetic differences far sooner than modern human populations typically did, according to a study published in Proceedings of the ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

A personal top five of 2021 archaeology discoveries highlights the Dead Sea Scroll fragments from the Cave of Horror, the ...

Denisovans were a type of ancient human that for a long time were known only from their DNA and teeth. But recent fossil findings and analysis is now revealing what these people looked like and that ...

An international team of researchers, led from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Yale University, ...

A newly sequenced Neanderthal genome has revealed how isolated populations of these ancient humans underwent rapid genetic ...

A genetic study has unveiled that two Neanderthals who lived approximately 10,000 years apart in Siberia's famous Denisova Cave were distant relatives. This remarkable discovery provides the fourth ...

Michigan State Police responded to an "active shooting" at a Reform Jewish synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan at about 12:30 p.m. local time Thursday. The suspect in the West Bloomfield synagogue ...

Queens Sen. John Liu is in the thick of budget negotiations in Albany because he also chairs the city education committee. A New York City jury found the man accused of killing a police detective ...

Crews from FDNY are responding to a fire on Lott Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn after an early Thursday morning fire. 5H ago 00:15 7-month-old in stroller killed by stray bullet in Brooklyn One ...