A groundbreaking study of the Skhūl I skull challenges our understanding of early human evolution.

One of the earliest known human burials — that of a young child — could have been a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals, a new study suggests.Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a ...

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.

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.