The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have smaller faces that stop growing sometime during adolescence. "Earlier growth ...

The Yahuai Cave site, located in Bolang Village, Longan County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was excavated between 2015 ...

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

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Modern humans have uniquely ... in the Journal of Human Evolution, Schuh and colleagues analyzed the midface region of 174 skulls of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and chimpanzees.

New discoveries shed light on an ancient human species and its evolutionary links to modern humans. Stephen Chester, ...

A round face, narrow eyes, relatively full lips and a flat nose: Using 3D technology, scientists in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

The dire wolf was one of the most formidable predators in the Americas during the last Ice Age, possessing a body more stout ...

Ancient human history is now resurfacing, quite literally, from the bottom of the sea. Off the western coast of Taiwan, ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

A neolithic warrior gets a face thanks to modern tech. At first, it was just a cluster of bone plates peeking from the ...