Closely related to both modern humans and Neanderthals, the Denisovans were a group of hominins who lived across Asia from roughly 400,000 to about 30,000 years ago. The now-extinct species was first ...

Scientists uncovered DNA from two mysterious human ancestors hidden in modern genomes, revealing new clues about our ...

The human family tree is gaining new branches. Researchers have found in modern humans' DNA signs of two previously unknown ancestors – extinct human forms with no fossils or decoded DNA, yet they ...

People worldwide carry DNA from a mysterious extinct human lineage that interbred with our ancestors long ago.

In a new Science study, scientists read the family tree buried inside modern genomes and turned up “ghost ancestors” in every population on Earth that no fossil records can account for. Anatomically ...

Ancient genomes reveal two unknown human groups, including a 'ghost' lineage that split off 800,000 years ago.

Researchers used a new method to investigate past interbreeding with Homo sapiens that doesn't require ancient DNA. The technique identified areas of living humans' genomes that came from unknown ...

Neanderthals, Denisovans and our ancestors were mixing and mingling a long time ago -- and some of our genetics can be traced back to these archaic humans. In Asians, as much as 3% of an individual's ...

Modern humans already carry small amounts of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA, evidence that our ancestors interbred with other ...

In another demonstration, the researchers performed the analysis on African populations, which only received Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA when individuals from Eurasia migrated back. TRACE found only ...

Human evolution involved repeated branching rather than one species simply transforming into the next. Earlier primates ...

New secrets from our past have been coming out in droves.