Imagine a world where the air thrums with the soft flutter of wings and the ground trembles under the steps of a creature no ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

The third confirmed location of extinct hominins known as Denisovans shows these human cousins adapted to an impressive range ...

Researchers have determined that a mysterious jawbone discovered on the seafloor off the coast of Taiwan was Denisovan, proving that the archaic humans were distributed widely over Asia.

Social media users have been shocked to learn that Booker is actually a DNA cousin of RuPaul, the world-famous drag queen and television icon. The revelation, which originally came to light in ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

On the April 1 episode of Finding Your Roots, host Henry Louis Gates Jr. told the actress she is distant cousins with none other than Samuel L. Jackson. The two actors share a "long stretch of DNA on ...