The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

Ancient linkups may have happened more frequently between female humans and male Neanderthals, according to an new genetic ...

Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate ...

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens.

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

By now, it’s firmly established that modern humans and their Neanderthal relatives met and mated as our ancestors expanded ...

Sci-fi cinema has changed greatly throughout the decades, and one can track its evolution from classics like Metropolis to ...

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the “Sword Dragon of Dorset,” the three-meter-long marine reptile lived during a ...

From gamma ray bursts and supernova explosions to black holes and unknown alien life, we rank the scariest things in the ...

Dan Trachtenberg's third Predator movie is the most substantial evolution of the sci-fi franchise to date and boldly embraces ...