Braces, rubber bands, even jaw surgery—millions endure them in pursuit of a straighter smile. But were misaligned smiles ...

No opening of the cranium, no cutting into the brain, no blood. Today's precise psychosurgery presents options for patients ...

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

The researchers used modern CT scanning techniques to get a new and detailed look, suggesting that the child might be a ...

A groundbreaking study of the Skhūl I skull challenges our understanding of early human evolution.

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

Changes to size, teeth and ears in various rodents in Chicago found to be part of their adaptation to human development.

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel. It forms part of the oldest intentional human burials ...

Using skulls of 128 modern humans from around the globe, 33 chimpanzees, and 13 Neanderthals — some mere infants, others fully grown — the researchers tracked how the face changes over time.

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...