The face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman has been recreated by a team of archeologists from the University of Cambridge after they excavated her body in 2018. The rare discovery of the ...

By comparing modern human, Neanderthal, and chimpanzee skulls, researchers have uncovered a unique trait having to do with ...

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

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

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal woman's face, based on a skull unearthed in Shanidar cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. The skull belonged to a woman who died around 75,000 years ago and was crushed to bits.

"Compared to Neanderthals and chimpanzees who continue growing longer, human facial growth stops earlier, around adolescence, resulting in a smaller adult face." The study is published in the ...

"Compared to Neanderthals and chimpanzees who continue growing longer, human facial growth stops earlier, around adolescence, resulting in a smaller adult face." Tracking changes in facial size in ...