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

A family holiday in Cornwall took an extraordinary turn when they discovered what looked like a unicorn skull whilst visiting one of the ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

"I asked my very experienced boss if he had ever seen that before, and he hadn't. So, I asked if he thought she was still ...

A groundbreaking study has resolved the mystery surrounding the “Dragon Man” skull, one of the most significant fossil ...

When living things are faced with dramatic shifts in the world around them, they sometimes rapidly adapt to better survive.

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and ...

Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s ...

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

Scientists have finally solved the mystery about the Dragon Man skull which had been puzzling them since it was found in 2018.By extracting DNA from the plaque on its teeth, researchers confirmed that ...

The so-called "Dragon Man" skull found in China in 1933 sheds light on the ancient human species the Denisovans, about whom scientists previously had little information.