This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...

New studies reveal deep history of archaic humans in southern Siberia Two new studies have shed light on when two groups of archaic humans (hominins)—Neanderthals and their enigmatic cousins, the ...

From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

A pinkie bone recovered from Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains in 2010 also led to the idea of a distinct ancient human population, dubbed the Denisovans, that some people share ...

Neolithic and later Turkic pastoralists took shelter in the cave, gathering their herds around them to ride out the Siberian winters. Thanks to them, the archaeologists who work in Denisova today ...

Scientists first sequenced their genetic code in 2010 using a 60,000-year-old finger bone recovered from Denisova Cave in Siberia, finding Denisovan DNA in modern-day humans all over the world ...

The Denisova Cave in Russia, first excavated about 40 years ago, holds fossil clues to the hominin branches on the evolutionary tree that lie close to Homo sapiens. Efforts to track the two species in ...