A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, suggesting she was a hybrid, according to a new study. However, not everyone ...

Newly analyzed jawbones from 380-million-year-old lungfish are shedding light on the feeding behaviors of our earliest ...

A University of Portsmouth student has discovered a new species of prehistoric mammal dating back 145 million years to the ...

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

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

A Texas paleontologist recently found a rare, nearly complete skull of an ancient amphibian.

Molecular sleuthing has tied the more‑than‑146,000‑year‑old Harbin cranium, known as "Dragon Man," to this hidden branch of humanity.

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.

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Construction worker finds human remains in Naples; including jaw, ribs, skull Sheriff's officials noted the bones appeared to have been buried for some time.

Yes, photo authentically shows mammoth skull discovered in Michigan farmer's field The 2015 discovery provided possible evidence of early human activity in the Wolverine State.

A woman's skull, eye socket and jaw were fractured after she was brutally attacked while trying to leave a Nottinghamshire pub. Leighann Woodward, 35, seriously injured another woman who had been ...