A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Scientists typically consider skulls, with telltale bumps and ridges, the best type of fossilized remains to understand the form or appearance of an extinct hominin species ... in a pinkie fossil ...

A recently published study in Science has identified an almost-complete hominin skull as belonging to a member of the Denisovan lineage. Researchers recovered the skull, known as the "Dragon Man ...

The two fossils are the first ever hominin fossils from submerged Sundaland and demonstrate that Homo erectus populations extended beyond Java onto the exposed lowland plains during the Middle ...

Protein sequences preserved in four tooth fossils from the southern African hominin species, Paranthropus robustus, indicate that a small tooth once thought to belong to a female was actually male.

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

Hominin Fossils This collection of viewable hominin fossil 3D models was produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program by 3D scanning casts and other replicas which are now on display in the ...