Among extant genes known to have originated among Denisovans are sequences common in Tibetan populations that help the body ...

These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.

Therefore, it may not have been the evolutionary increase in brain size that led to the slowdown in human development, but the extension of childhood and the three-generation structure that favored ...

Interestingly, this fossil fills a 70-million-year-long gap in our knowledge between the early bird-like dinosaurs ...

Researchers unearthed the skull of a previously unknown starling-sized bird species named Navaornis hestiae that was so well ...

Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over ...