MailOnline has asked the experts what the world might look like if the Neanderthals and Denisovans hadn't gone extinct.

For the last 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species walking the Earth but what would cavemen like Neanderthals and Denisovans look like today if they had survived. DailyMail.com ...

"We're building a life that's looking more and more like our stories," he adds. Read More: Thorin the Neanderthal Was One of ...

48,000 years ago, Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals when they left Africa, before going on to the wider world, ...

The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

The species may have lived alongside Homo sapiens for more than 100,000 years, and they’re believed to be the precursor to the Neanderthal, the skull of which is seen above.

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

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

Europe’s earliest known boomerang, carved from mammoth tusk and over 40,000 years old, reveals advanced skills of early Homo ...

Around 900,000 years ago, the global population reached a precarious low of only 1280 reproducing individuals and stayed like ...