Ancient people in what is now West Africa are believed to have interbred with a previously unknown species of ancient humans some 50,000 years ago. The proof, according to experts, is in the genomes of contemporary West Africans and cannot be found in old bones or DNA. They examined the genetic material of hundreds of individuals from Sierra Leone and Nigeria and discovered “ghost” DNA,... 

A skull that has the potential to challenge what we know about human evolution has been discovered in Greece in the 60s but unfortunately we only found out about it now, so we would rather report about it now than never. We have now received an update directly from the head researcher, Dr Aris Poulianos, who has been working against all obstacles to get the information out about this controversial... 

A 35,000-year-old flute made of vulture bone found in a cave in southwestern Germany is the world’s oldest known musical instrument. The artifact suggests music may have been one advantage our ancestors had over their cousins, the now-extinct Neanderthals, according to a report published in the journal Nature. The five-holed flute, which is fully intact and made from a griffon vulture’s radius...