The mummies are thought to be from a never-before-seen population living in remote Africa around 7,000 years ago.

More than 7,000 years ago, during the African Humid Period, the Sahara was lush and green. A human population lived […] ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.

They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively -- they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...

In this pioneering study, researchers analyzed 7,500-year-old African women and found a whole new human lineage.