Scientists believe they're close to solving an ancient mystery involving a strange hominin skull that was neither Neanderthal nor human found fused to a cave wall with a stalagmite sticking out of the ...

A skull that was found embedded in a cave wall in Greece more than 60 years ago may finally have an identification.

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era.

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

A 146,000-year-old skull recovered near Harbin, China, by scientists decades ago has now been found to belong to the Denisovans, an extinct relation to modern humans who lived in Siberia and East Asia ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a previously unknown lineage of human beings after fully sequencing the DNA of ancient remains excavated at archeological sites near the country’s capital Bogota ...

In a recent study, Dr. Claudine Abegg and her colleagues analyzed the remains of a mummified cranium housed in the ...

Learn more about the differences between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and how those differences may have helped our ...

Southeast Asian people mummified their died by smoke-drying them, creating 14,000-year-old mummies that are twice as old as ...