MailOnline has asked the experts what the world might look like if the Neanderthals and Denisovans hadn't gone extinct.

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

Our ancient ancestors died out thousands of years ago, leaving behind nothing but fossils, a few scattered artefacts, and lingering traces in our DNA. For the last 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

The ancient boomerang wasn't found alone; it lay alongside a human phalanx—a small bone from either a finger or a toe.

A mammoth tusk artefact discovered in a Polish cave could be Europe’s earliest example of a boomerang and even the oldest ...

Around 900,000 years ago, the global population reached a precarious low of only 1280 reproducing individuals and stayed like ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Around 42,000 years ago, Homo sapiens in Europe ushered in a type of prehistoric Renaissance known as the Aurignacian, ...

(CN) — A boomerang made from a mammoth’s tusk pulled from a Polish cave could be one of the oldest known examples of a ...

Archaeologists have unearthed what could be the world's oldest boomerang in a Polish cave, fashioned from a mammoth tusk. The ...

Exile shaped the very fabric of my identity, forcing the question that haunts every refugee: Where does home go when the road ...