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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The early modern human and Neanderthal model heads before they were painted, sitting on a shelf alongside a skull cast in the Kennis brothers' studio These techniques include layering clay over a cast ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...