A new study published in L’Anthropologie is shedding light on a remarkable discovery from Skhul Cave in Israel. Researchers have reanalyzed the remains of a 140,000-year-old child, and the findings ...

Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, expressed caution, noting that the fossils from Skhul Cave, in general, align more closely with Homo sapiens.

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is passed from mother to child, recovered from the skull showed that Dragon Man was related to an early Denisovan group that lived in Siberia from around 217,000 ...

140,000-Year-Old Skull Suggests Ancient Human-Neanderthal Hybrid: Study The researchers used modern CT scanning techniques to get a new and detailed look, suggesting that the child might be a hybrid.

Mystery of Neanderthals’ disappearance There are a handful of Homo sapiens fossils that may reflect the species’ early, less successful, journeys out of Africa into the Middle East and Europe, said ...