Researchers have found the earliest example of our species (modern humans) outside Africa. A skull unearthed in Greece has been dated to 210,000 years ago, at a time when Europe was occupied by ...

An interdisciplinary research team led by anthropologist Gerhard Weber from the University of Vienna, together with experts ...

In addition, recent electron microscope analyses of skulls by the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution revealed markings that could only have been made with modern carving implements.

The smoking gun was the rounded shape of the back of Apidima 1 - a characteristic unique to modern humans. Rauner Grün, another study author, said the skulls' isotopic signatures also revealed ...

In this feature, compare the skulls and jawbones of a Neanderthal and an early modern human and see if you can ferret out the many anatomical dissimiliarities that paleoanthropologists use to ...

Dr Luis Chiappe, a co-lead author from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, added the discovery showed some of the birds flying over the heads of dinosaurs had a fully modern skull ...

The fossils exhibit physical traits between Homo erectus and modern humans, Wu said, including a skull thought to belong to a 13- or 14-year-old girl discovered in 2015. The skull showed a mix of ...

Neanderthals had a long, low skull (compared to the more globular skull of modern humans) with a characteristic prominent brow ridge above their eyes. Their face was also distinctive. The central part ...