By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

Chinese scientists in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China used 3D technology to reconstruct the face of a ...

Homo sapiens, in our most "modern" form, have been roaming the earth for about 200,000 years now. But there's something rather special about the way our brains look today: human skulls are rounder ...

Side views of an approximately 50,000-year-old Neanderthal skull from La Ferrassie, France, next to an approximately 20,000-year-old Homo sapiens fossil from Abri Pataud, France. The modern human has ...

Both skulls are incomplete (Apidima 1 consists ... to a roughly 194,000-year-old jaw bone belonging to another modern human, which was found in Israel's Misliya cave. However, our modern human ...

Artefacts in this final zone of the gallery highlight the craftsmanship and ingenuity of modern humans, as well as early symbolism and cultural practices such as cannibalism. Human skull fashioned ...

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

and other skulls of her species found at the same site confirmed it. Some experts argue that Lucy was in some ways more adapted to walking upright than a modern human, whose pelvis has to be a ...

Guangxi is an important gateway linking East Asia and Southeast Asia. "The study of the skull fossil from the Yahuai Cave site is helpful in developing our understanding of the physical ...

Modern humans have much smaller and softer-looking faces compared to our ancient relatives like. But why is that? A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology offers some ...

Scientists reconstructed the face of a prehistoric human using a 16,000-year-old skull in southern China offering clues about early human life ...