Cro-Magnon man facial reconstruction. During the upper Paleolithic period, about 40,000 to 10,000 years ago, Europe was inhabited by Homo sapiens known as the Cro-Magnons.

Prof Chris Stringer, human evolution expert at the Museum, was happy to inform the creation of the reconstruction. 'The models are based on the very best scientific evidence we could put together.

When scientists first discovered these remains of a teenage girl in 2010, they knew that the history of early humans was about to be rewritten. Now we know what the face of a Denisovan actually looked ...

Cro-Magnon individuals were anatomically similar to people living today. They had high foreheads, strong prominent chins, and slight brow ridges.

Cro-Magnon is a term that was used earlier on because these were some of the very first specimens found to show the ancient nature of humans, says Stringer. But now, by comparison, these aren’t really ...

Two of these extinct beings—Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon people—are pretty close to us, evolutionarily speaking. But they’re not the same species. Here’s how to tell the difference.

A Cro-Magnon Capulet? ©2003 The National Academy of Sciences Long ago, in what is now northwestern Europe, a Neanderthal Romeo and Cro-Magnon Juliet may have met, fallen in love, and had children--or ...