This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full moon, and more.

Ancient human history is now resurfacing, quite literally, from the bottom of the sea. Off the western coast of Taiwan, ...

The fossil, called Penghu 1, is one of the few known pieces of physical evidence from the Denisovans, extinct relatives of ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

A fossilized jawbone found off the coast of Taiwan more than 20 years ago belonged to a group of ancient humans, called the ...

The first four humans to orbit Earth’s poles are sharing their experiences from their historic mission. In a discussion with ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

However, new research has not only challenged this view, it has simultaneously spawned a new mystery surrounding human evolution ... separate for over a million years before recombining to form the ...

What's more, according to their analysis of modern human DNA, one of these isolated populations left a stronger legacy in our genes than the other. "The question of where we come from is one that has ...