The skull of a young woman found at a Copper Age cemetery in Iran has revealed evidence of cranial modification along with a ...

A team led by China University of Geosciences has described a new species of sauropod, Jinchuanloong niedu, from a partial ...

Researchers insert a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal variant of the GLI3 gene into mice, altering their bone structure without ...

No, modern humans weren’t the first to craft pointed weapons using bones. Neanderthals were already doing it thousands of ...

Researchers theorize that an adult male dipped his finger in red ocher and intentionally used the pigment to complete the ...

Neanderthals may have used a red pigment on a rock to shape what looks like art - a rendition of a facial figure from 43,000 ...

Maba 1 was considered a ‘Chinese Neanderthal’ for their resemblance manifested in the facial area. However, this study did ...

Maba 1] is well-known for the Neanderthal-like face, while its neurocranium shows affinities with many hominin taxa, which ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

A 300,000-year-old skull found in China may belong to a completely unknown human species—rewriting everything we thought we ...

New Homo erectus skull fossils found undersea reveal migration across ancient Sundaland, suggesting cultural exchange and advanced hunting in prehistoric Southeast Asia ...

In a significant step forward in understanding ancient human history, scientists have confirmed that a child buried around 28 ...