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 ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

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

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

These piercing eyes belong to a reconstruction of a Neanderthal, an ancient human relative that shared the planet with Denisovans and modern humans. Genetic research suggests that they went ...

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 ...