It was also during this era that the first known occurrence of light skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes was detected, in the ...

A 7,000-year-old man whose bones were left behind in a Spanish cave had the dark skin of an African, but the blue eyes of a Scandinavian. He was a hunter-gatherer who ate a low-starch diet and ...

Experts are not sure when blue eyes first evolved, but there are some interesting theories out there as to why they evolved. In Africa dark eyes, skin and hair are the norm, but blue eyes are more ...

A man who lived on the Iberian peninsula before Europeans became farmers probably had blue eyes but dark hair and skin, according to scientists who have sequenced his DNA. This surprising ...

A genetic analysis of an ancient European hunter-gatherer reveals that his face was a striking combination of dark skin and blue eyes. Spanish researchers recovered DNA material from the 7,000 ...

Genetic tests reveal that a hunter-gatherer who lived 7,000 years ago had the unusual combination of dark skin and hair and blue eyes. It has surprised scientists, who thought that the early ...

A DNA study has challenged long-held beliefs about the skin colour of early Europeans, revealing that dark skin was widespread across the continent for far longer than previously thought.

Prehistoric Irish people were dark-skinned and had blue eyes, an Irish documentary claims. People who inhabited Ireland some 10,000 years ago had dark or black skin and bright blue eyes ...

Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds. Scientists found that the genes that cause lighter skin, hair and eyes ...

A 7,000-year-old man whose bones were left behind in a Spanish cave had the dark skin of an African, but the blue eyes of a Scandinavian. He was a hunter-gatherer who ate a low-starch diet and ...