Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution in the upcoming new ...

The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned astronomy, geology, ...

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Researchers identify 146,000-year-old 'dragon man' skull as a Denisovan using dental calculus after DNA extraction attempts failed, revealing insights about this human species.

Human skulls and bones are desecrated and sold on social media, but it's legal in the U.K.'s thriving human remains trade, a Live Science investigation has found.

Caption Human skulls. Educational Notes It may appear to be one, solid bone, but the human skull, or cranium, is actually made of 22 bones altogether! There are eight cranial bones and 14 facial bones ...

Find out what you need to know about the skull. Learn about its function and how to protect your skull.

Exciting new research reveals a fascinating connection between the ancient Dragon Man skull, unearthed in China, and the ...

The dragon man skull, long kept hidden in a well, may very well have been the missing link in our understanding of human evolution — a link that had been right under our noses for nearly a century.

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.