Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

To mark the occasion, it is opening two major exhibitions: ‘Morris Mania’, which will look at how his legacy has penetrated the modern day on shower curtains to ... to witness farming tasks. From the ...

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

Researchers from the University of Washington excavating a site in China have found Neanderthal tools dating back almost ...

Understanding the differences between Neanderthal and modern human faces sheds light on our own evolution.

It was in 2013, in South Africa's Rising Star cave system, that archaeologists first discovered the remains of H. naledi.

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad ...

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

The intricate cave system perched deep in an isolated stretch of Spanish mountains contained the remains of an ancient and ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning, the ...