Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain ...

Wealth can do some weird things to people. With an abundance of money, hobbies go from collecting vintage figurines and to ...

So excited doesn't quite capture it MARIAN FAA: Three thousand kilometres away in the PNG province of Madang, a descendant of explorer Miklouho Maclay is waiting for the skulls to arrive.

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving alongside non-avian dinosaurs. This study supports Vegavis' placement in the ...

Archaeologists Shocked to Find Ring of Children's Skulls Around a Lake, Unearth a Strange Ancient Ritual Human sacrifice is ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...

A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may actually be a fossilised brain, researchers have revealed. Glass rarely forms ...

The face of a mystery woman whose skull was found in the North Sea has been recreated by experts. The grim discovery was found by a fishing boat crew on May 15 last year around 150 miles off the ...

Not only that, the couple had a trophy of their own, the skull of a green sea turtle, and it was with them aboard that very plane. The passengers in the row ahead were sure to have listened with ...

Police have issued a facial recreation from a human skull pulled from the North Sea in the hope of identifying the mystery woman. The skull was found by a fishing boat around 150 miles off the ...

The skulls of Viking-age Swedes, dated between the 10th and 12th centuries, suggest the population of the time was suffering from a wide variety of ailments. Researchers from the University of ...