Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A digital analysis of the perfectly preserved nose bones on a bizarre-looking Neanderthal skull reveals that a long-standing ...

The most complete Neanderthal skull ever examined has given researchers something they have never had before: a virtually untouched internal nose. That rare anatomical jackpot is forcing a rethink of ...

The child's survival to age 6 may be due to altruism within the community. Fossils from the skull of a Neanderthal child that likely had Down syndrome shed light into the collaborative and communal ...

A tiny skull fragment from Cova Negra in Valencia, Spain was identified as part of a Neanderthal child around six years old ...

By sequencing ancient DNA from the fetus, scientists revealed a severe genetic bottleneck that reshaped Neanderthal history ...

While the skull of the first child discovered was the only Skhul fossil examined for the study, “all of them manifest what we call ‘mosaic morphology,’ in the sense that they have both Neanderthal and ...

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man (right) based on skull found at the La Ferrassie rock shelter in Dordogne Valley, France. He's face to face with a male Homo sapien. If you've ever seen what a ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...