An ancient cave in southwestern China has revealed new evidence about how Denisovans—an ancient human relative—lived, ...

A rare combination of tools and fossils found in a Chinese cave could help scientists learn more about our mysterious extinct ...

The bat, a cave myotis, is most commonly found in Mexico or the southwest region of the United States ...

A bat that exposed a Rapid City cat has tested positive for rabies — the first confirmed case in Pennington County in 2026.

A cave in southwestern China has yielded seven fossils that belonged to an enigmatic population of extinct humans known as ...

Until now, researchers had never identified a Denisovan radius — one of the two long bones of the forearm. The ancient humans ...

A rockfall sealed part of Spain’s La Garma Cave around 16,800 years ago, preserving an exceptionally complete Paleolithic living space. Archaeologists found an oval hut centered on a hearth, with ...

The Syrian rock hyrax depends on the fragile landscapes of the border region. Alongside other environmentalists, I have been documenting the destruction of its habitat ...

Seven Denisovan fossils from Bianfu Cave in southwest China have opened an unusually detailed window onto a vanished archaic human population. Dating from about 167,000 to 134,000 years ago, the finds ...

Missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations like string played a huge role in the daily lives of our ancestors. Researchers are working to weave together new insights from the traces ...

In 2019, workers doing routine ecological restoration at a quarry in China's Yunnan province hit something under the soil: bones and stone tools. Nobody realized at the time that this unassuming hole ...