This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing matter, methane fuels sea spiders’ diet, and more.

Neanderthal extinction: A space physicist reopens the debate by José-Miguel Tejero, Montserrat Sanz Borràs, The Conversation edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

The cranium’s DNA did not match Neanderthals or modern humans. Dragon Man was Denisovan. The red circle shows where the genetic material came from. Image credits: .Q. Fu et al/Cell 2025 ...

While the world is now aware of it, until 2021, only one person had known what the skull looked like since its discovery in the 1930s. It was unearthed in Harbin, in northeast China, during the ...

The results reveal a remarkable variability within the fossil sample of Atapuerca. In the case of the Sima de los Huesos individuals, the upper premolars show thin enamel (like the Neanderthals), ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a pebble that appears to show the oldest full human fingerprint ever recorded. Their investigations suggest it was made by Neanderthals, who may have used a red ...

But let’s get to the flute, and Trump’s early efforts to blow hard. “I played, for very short periods of time, the flute. Could you believe that?” Trump said. No. But I want to so badly.

About 45,000 years ago, something unusual happened in Ice Age Europe. A new wave of modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: ...

Could you believe that? I had flute lessons,” Trump said, later calling it an “unusual instrument.” “Can you believe it? I could have been a flutist. And I didn’t particularly like it.

With minimal Neanderthal archaeological sites connecting Eastern Europe and Eurasia, it had long been a mystery as to how Neanderthals traveled between the two regions between 120,000 years and 60,000 ...

And this isn’t the first time Neanderthal genetic variants have been identified as a considerable risk factor for a disease: In 2020, Zeberg co-authored a groundbreaking study in the journal ...

Speed Demons of the Stone Age Out of 110 computer simulations, only three successfully reached the Altai region, but those that did completed the journey in roughly 925,000 to 1.1 million individual ...