Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).