It is identified as a member of the Denisovan group, which was initially discovered in the Denisova Cave located in Kazakhstan. Other bone has been found linking this “ghost” race with Neanderthals ...

Prehistoric people may have used throwing spears to hunt large animals 300,000 years ago – and perhaps as far back as 2 million years ago. A new analysis of preserved wooden spears indicates ...

The official National News agency reported the “enemy drone struck a vehicle… in the town of Ayta ash-Shab,” near the southern border. An IDF statement said the Hezbollah member was ...

Lebanese media report an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the village of Aita ash-Sha'ab in southern Lebanon. One man, identified as the mayor of Ayta ash-Shaab's son, was killed.

It enabled information sharing, coordinated activities, and knowledge transfer, setting us apart from extinct hominids like Neanderthals and Denisovans. A study published in Nature Communications ...

Notably, this human-specific variant is absent in Neanderthals and Denisovans, our closest extinct human relatives. “This gene is part of a sweeping evolutionary change in early modern humans and ...

The Denisovans are the first species of archaic humans that have been discovered based on their DNA. Were they a race of Giants, a sophisticated race that had precision machined stone tools ...

“The study expands our knowledge of the extent to which Neanderthals and Denisovans contributed functionally relevant genetic variation to modern humans,” Svante Pääbo, an evolutionary geneticist at ...