Denisovan - an extinct human relative of both Neanderthals and modern humans that lived across Asia. They are named after Denisova Cave in Russia, where the first finger bone was found.

The Partula tohiveana snail has been reclassified as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List after being previously ...

Professor Lee Berger, the project's leader and Director of the Centre for Exploration of the Deep Human Journey at Wits ...

Our closest extinct relatives, Neanderthals ... Neanderthal DNA lingers on in human beings today. A lot of human beings today possess a small amount of Neanderthal genes.

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed ... after when the latter went extinct. The ochre-stained skeleton ...

Using fossils, he argued in 1796 that many species had become extinct ... Today, human-caused extinction is speeding up. The dodo is one of the early entries on an already lengthy list.

It’s the events leading up to this final obliteration on Eldey that Tim Birkhead deals with in the first half of The Great Auk, a book that’s both a homage to the extinct bird and an account ...

However, until this year, the 'human parts list' was still incomplete. We often forget that every gene, every protein and every cell is composed of even smaller parts – namely metabolites.

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non ...