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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The infant, found in a Puglian cave, was likely around a year old at death and had distinctive traits—brown skin, blue eyes, and curly dark hair. His genome links him to Europe’s Villabruna ...

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 ...