NEW YORK — An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands of years...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving...

Researchers found two new mutations in ancient proteins from 400,000-year-old teeth....

BEIJING, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Proteins extracted from six teeth of early humans residing in what is now China around 400,000 years ago provide new...

A new scientific study is quietly changing the way researchers understand human evolution. It focuses on something surprisingly small: ancient tooth...

Ancient proteins extracted from a 400,000-year-old tooth have connected three chapters of human prehistory in a single study. Researchers identified...

Analysis of tooth enamel proteins found a uniquely Denisovan gene in Homo erectus individuals who lived in China 400,000 years ago

A nine-year-old boy, Matt Berger, stumbled upon fossils during a field trip with his paleoanthropologist father in South Africa. These accidental...

Humanity's ancestry has grown far clearer thanks to our ability to obtain ancient DNA. We now know that, as humans left Africa, they interbred with...

About 210 million years ago, on a humid riverbank in what is now northern New Mexico, two small crocodile relatives stood side by side among low...