New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young child, buried around 140,000 years ago at Skhul Cave in Israel, was found to ...

It has been over 40,000 years since the last of the Neanderthals, our ancient human cousins, disappeared from the Earth. But from the shape of your nose to whether someone is an early riser, ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in Portugal more than two decades ago. The famous and mysterious Lapedo child lived ...

Feb. 7, 2005 — -- Animal-human hybrids have long been the stuff of fairy tales and myths -- from the half-man, half-horse centaur to singing mermaids. Now the swift pace of genetic engineering ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...