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

Researchers claim to have uncovered the "oldest face in Western Europe" after excavating fragments of a skull at the Sima del ...

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.

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 ...

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right). © Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split ...

Responding officers confirmed the bones appeared to be human remains, Roxeanne Vainuku, the department's deputy director of communication, tells PEOPLE. She adds that the medical examiner's office was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animation of a theropod dinosaur skull, showing muscle forces. Credit: Alec Wilken, Casey Holiday Modern birds, as well as other animals like snakes and fishes, have skulls with jaws and palates ...