An open-air site in Austria occupied by humans during the coldest part of the last glacial period may have been dedicated to hunting reindeer for pelts, showing how people adapted to extreme ...

A new book by Laura Spinney is rather tantalisingly called Proto, begging the question: proto-what? Prototype, the earliest version of a technology? Protoplasm, the stuff of our cells? Or even ...

while East Asians carry some genes of a mysterious newly discovered hominid species dubbed “Denisovans”. A further difference is that many scientists would not separate body and soul as being ...

Research by the National Museum of Natural Science confirmed that Denisovans — a species of archaic humans — inhabited Penghu 100,000 years ago, revealing for the first time their presence outside ...

It followed members of the 25th Infantry Division who disappeared and tried to live among native Melanesians. The historian argued that the film was more convincing than Private Ryan, which he ...

They are a Christian Melanesian people who look east to Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Pacific, not west to Muslim Asia. Australia at the time was administering and beginning to prepare PNG for ...

Hokkaido Prefectural Police have arrested a 39-year-old police sergeant on suspicion of public indecency after he exposed his lower body at a shopping center in Ebetsu City on Tuesday. According to ...

The bone is thought to be at least 10,000 years old and could belong to the Denisovans, early humans who are related to us, but who experts don't know a lot about. More tests are needed before it ...