Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our ...

The human skull has many components. In fact, in an average adult human, the skull combines 22 bones. One of these bones is the mandible, more commonly known as the lower jaw. What Is the Mandible ...

One of the highlight specimens in our Human Evolution gallery is the fossil skull known as Gibraltar 1. It is the first adult Neanderthal skull ever discovered. Model-maker Jez Gibson-Harris and ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

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

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.

OWEN COUNTY, Ind. — An investigation is underway after a human skull was discovered on private property in Owen County. According to the Owen County Sheriff’s Department, a skull was fo… ...

Police officers found what appears to be a human skull on Hirsch Road near Clinton Drive, north of Buffalo Bayou on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.

A decomposing body was discovered in a California neighborhood on Thursday after a resident saw a dog drop a human skull on a sidewalk, officials said.

A Texas scrap metal hunter discovered a cooler near a bayou containing a suspected human skull. Houston Police are waiting for an autopsy.