Gurche then overlaid muscle on to the face by following markings on the skull left behind from chewing, revealing the first ...

Researchers have unveiled the face of a long-lost human ancestor, the Denisovans, using the famed Harbin skull—an ...

The earliest proposed Homo sapiens, a 300,000-year-old skull from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, does not show this rounded, high back. The latest evidence was uncovered at the site of Apidima Cave in ...

Located in the Zagros mountains in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, Shanidar Cave served as an important place for ...

A study published today in the journal Nature reveals that the skull, which was originally discovered in Greece in the 1970s, belonged to a member of an early population of Homo sapiens and is ...

Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig A reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens skull based on scans of multiple original fossils Prof Hublin was speaking at a news conference at the College de ...

The skull showed a mix of primitive and modern ... advanced technical skills and were on the evolutionary path toward Homo sapiens. The site, only the second in China after Zhoukoudian to yield ...

A skull fossil unearthed in 2015 is one of the ... They were very intelligent, and had evolved towards the stage of Homo sapiens, according to Wu. "The Hualongdong humans were the earliest ancient ...

LB1's skull.) After LB1's discovery, some scientists had suggested that the hobbit was really a modern human, just a small one. But when Falk's team measured the brains of LB1 and Homo sapiens ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to ...

These early Homo sapiens pioneers in Europe faced harsh Ice ... Zlaty kun’s remains illustrate a hazardous landscape. “Marks on the skull hint towards predators, possibly hyenas, to have ...