From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved ...

Ancient DNA from Denisovans left humans a powerful genetic advantage — a gene that helped early Americans survive new ...

Remains of early humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans have been discovered at just a limited number of sites in Europe and Asia. This has long frustrated archaeologists, who are confident that ...

Some 40 years ago, a Buddhist monk uncovered a mandible in Baishiya Karst Cave, more than 10,000 feet above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau. The specimen has now been dated to 160,000 years ago, and ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

An international team of scientists has found out that two types of ancient people originated in Africa, and not one, as previously thought. To clarify this issue, they analyzed the area of dental ...

Last Wednesday, after ten months of work, the Underwater Exploration Group of the Great Maya Aquifer Project (GAM) found a connection between two of the most extensive flooded cavern systems on ...

A man who murdered a family friend in her sleep before committing sexual offences on her body in an act of "unimaginable depravity" has been jailed for at least 26 years. Warning: Readers may find ...

But far beneath the chaos, an alternative awaits: caving. Caving, also known as spelunking, goes deeper than your average commercial cavern tour. “It’s climbing, crawling, scrambling, rappelling, and ...

A man who stabbed his mother’s friend to death before sexually assaulting her has been jailed. Ernestas Juska, 21, was sentenced today at Maidstone Crown Court after pleading guilty to murdering a ...

A man who murdered a family friend in her sleep before committing sexual offences on her body in an act of "unimaginable depravity" has been jailed for at least 26 years. Ernestas Juska, 21, murdered ...

Warning: This article contains details some readers may find disturbing. A man who stabbed a sleeping family friend to death in a "senseless" act has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum ...