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.

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

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 ...

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 ...

Left: computed tomographic (CT) scan of a Neanderthal fossil (La Ferrassie ... which describes how human skulls and faces became smaller and less rugged throughout evolution.