This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full moon, and more.

They whimper, drink from baby bottles and crawl oh so tentatively -- they look like cute white puppies, not the fruit of a ...

A fossilized jawbone dredged up by a fishing net from the seafloor 15 ½ miles (25 kilometers) off the coast of Taiwan in 2010 looked human, but for ...

Discovered in Taiwan, the jawbone is believed to have belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Modern humans can be recognized by their smaller facial structure when compared with Neanderthals and other hominin ancestors ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

The exact mechanisms behind the differences in facial features between Neanderthals and modern humans are still not fully ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

A partial skull found in a cave in Southern Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa ...

Modern humans have much smaller and softer-looking faces compared to our ancient relatives like. But why is that? A new study ...