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

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

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

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

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...

A surprising new discovery suggests that Neanderthals may have carried out a form of dental treatment nearly 60,000 years ago. Researchers studying an...

A rancher's keen eye in 1908 New Mexico unearthed ancient bones, revealing a groundbreaking truth. Decades later, these findings confirmed humans...

A rancher's keen eye in 1908 New Mexico unearthed ancient bones, revealing a groundbreaking truth. Decades later, these findings confirmed humans...

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