According to new CT scans and models, parts of the 140,000-year-old skull resemble those of modern humans, while the jaw appears to be more similar to those of our extinct relatives ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, suggesting she was a hybrid, according to a new study. However, not everyone ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

The researchers used modern CT scanning techniques to get a new and detailed look, suggesting that the child might be a ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Various theories have emerged, including that they were outcompeted by more advanced hunter-gatherers, fell victim to diseases brought by modern humans, or interbred with early humans, ultimately ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

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

The species flourished from roughly 350,000 to 40,000 years ago, and studies indicate they and modern humans may have gone their separate ways as long as 800,000 years ago.

Fu compared these with Neanderthal, modern human and Denisovan sequences. ... but differed from proteins in modern humans and Neanderthals. That suggested the Dragon Man individual was a Denisovan.