Over the course of three nights in 1422, the woman had visions of aggressive pets and insatiable worms tormenting a beloved ...

A new fossil study reveals that teeth began as skin sensors, helping explain why modern teeth still react painfully to cold ...

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

Tooth enamel, the hardest substance in the human body, may be at risk of gradual and permanent wear from chewing vegetables.

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

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...