Like a proud cat leaving a bird on its owner's doorstep, orcas—also called killer whales—may sometimes offer to share their ...

A woman shaved her head to dress up as rapper Pitbull for his concert—ditching the bald cap entirely. Sabrina Brück, 26, from Antwerp, had long wanted to try the look and saw the gig as the perfect ...

Fossils once thought to represent the oldest dated Homo sapiens remains are now categorized as a subspecies of Homo sapiens: Idaltu. This raises the question: Are they a new subspecies or merely ...

For decades, the predominant view of human evolution held that Homo sapiens emerged in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, descending from a single ancestral lineage. However, recent ...

For much of Homo sapiens’ existence, ... In 2012 another bone in the cave, belonging to a different young Denisovan female, who the researchers named Denny, was found to be a hybrid.

In a new study, scientists at Aix-Marseille University in France sequenced the genome of 22 H. sapiens and 14 Neanderthals from Eurasia, dating between 120,000 and 20,000 years ago, to understand ...

One group of scientists examined genomes from three female and three male Homo sapiens individuals who lived around 45,000 years ago based on bones found in a cave at the German town of Ranis, and ...

Around 300,000 years ago, at least nine species of the genus Homo, including Homo sapiens, spread across Africa, Europe, and Asia.All eventually disappeared, except for Homo sapiens. Neanderthals and ...

Study explores how Neanderthal’s Y chromosome didn’t pass over to humans. Genetic studies suggest a rapid influx of Neanderthal genes into Homo sapiens roughly 47,000 years ago.

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But it's also possible that genes from Neanderthal males were incompatible with the female Homo sapiens carrying them. That would mean only female hybrids were able to reproduce.