The Skhul child fossil, about 140,000 years old, combines human-like and Neanderthal-like traits in the skull, jaw, and inner ...

Their team analyzed the child’s skull ... with a human fossil that is 140,000 years old.” For decades, scholars believed Neanderthals evolved in Europe and reached Israel only around 70,000 years ago.

A groundbreaking discovery of a 140,000-year-old child’s skeleton from Skhul Cave reveals the earliest known evidence of ...

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...

An ancient skull has finally shown us what the Denisovans looked like. Now it turns out they, not Neanderthals, might be our ...

Researchers used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a child they believe was the result of interbreeding between ...

A nearly complete human skull that was discovered in a Greek cave in 1960 has remained at the center of a major ...

A group of Boy Scouts made a horrifying discovery in 2002, when they opened a bag found on a Wisconsin hiking trail and saw a human skull inside, investigators say. Twenty-three years later, DNA ...

A group of Boy Scouts made a horrifying discovery in 2002, when they opened a bag found on a Wisconsin hiking trail and saw a human skull inside, investigators say.

Seventy million years ago, southern Patagonia was a warm, seasonally wet landscape where dinosaurs, turtles, frogs, and ...

Law enforcement is investigating how the skull of a woman who died and was cremated in Maplewood in 2001 was found in 2002.