Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the heavy brow ridges and projecting midfaces of Neanderthals, ...

Human statues found hidden in the wall of Gobeklitepe: a 12,000-year-old discovery that reopens the mystery of the world's ...

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

The image of a robotics engineer warning that a prototype could crush a human skull is a vivid one, but the hard evidence ...

A new study analyzes the nasal cavity of the "Altamura Man," a Neanderthal who died between 130,000 and 172,000 years ago ...

The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.

New research shows that domestic dogs began diversifying at least 11,000 years ago, long before modern breeding. A major ...

Harippad: A human skull surfaced from a heap of soil unloaded in the front yard of a house, shocking residents of the ...

Archaeologists uncover evidence showing how the Romans used decapitated heads to intimidate Celts during the siege of a ...

From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms ...

An analysis of Neanderthal nose bones suggests the species’ famously large noses did not evolve primarily to warm and ...