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

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

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

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

University of Chicago Press Journals. "Early Modern Human Skull Includes Surprising Neanderthal Feature." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 08 / 070807145140.htm (accessed May ...

A genome sequenced from a modern human skull has been dated at approximately 45,000 years old, making it the oldest discovery of its kind. It’s a significant archaeological discovery, but the ...

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

An ancient skull recovered from a cave in the Annamite mountains in northern Laos is the oldest modern human fossil found in Southeast Asia, researchers report. The discovery pushes back the clock ...

The skull, found in China in 2019, looks like an ancient modern human but has the chin of a Denisovan. It could rewrite the story of how our species evolved.

In the early 1950s, a very old human skull was discovered in Czechia; the sample was called Zlatý Kůň (golden horse in Czech). This skull yielded DNA that has now been analyzed. The effort revealed ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...