They also had some physical traits in common too, one of which was blue eyes and dark skin. Writes Michael Balter in Science: One surprise is that the La Braña man had dark skin and blue eyes ...

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 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 ...

THE DNA of a hunter-gatherer who lived in Spain some 7,000 years ago suggests ancient Europeans had dark skin and blue eyes. Genetic material recovered from a tooth of La Brana 1, an ancient man ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The majority of Europeans living 5,000 years ago, including those who built Stonehenge, may have had dark skin, a new study ...

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 ...

The well-preserved remains of a baby boy who died 17,000 years ago in what is now Italy reveal that he had blue eyes, dark skin and curly hair. When you purchase through links on our site ...