Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Responding officers confirmed the bones appeared to be human remains, Roxeanne Vainuku, the department's deputy director of ...

Most brain surgery requires doctors to remove part of the skull to access hard-to-reach areas or tumors. It's invasive, risky ...

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

Piecing together the story of Europe's earliest settlers is a challenge, largely because relevant human fossils are scarce ... are limited to an isolated tooth, a fragment of jaw and a partial skull ...

The researchers said the jawbones belonged to a human ancestor who lived in the Iberian peninsula between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago. Spanish scientists find jaw bone of ancient man who ...

A blast from the past! Archeologists unearthed fossilized bone fragments in a cave in Spain that may represent a previously unknown species — making it the oldest-known human fossil ever discovered in ...

Bone fragments discovered in Spanish cave are putting a face to the earliest ancient humans to arrive in Western Europe, more than a million years ago.

Archeologists have unearthed what could be the oldest human face in Western Europe. Dated at between 1.1 and 1.4 million years, the bone fragments have some resemblance to extinct Homo erectus and was ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper ...

Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest human ancestor ever discovered in Western Europe.

“Rat-kangaroos, like bettongs and potoroos, are an ideal group of animals for testing skull biomechanics because ... capability noted that its jaw was more robust in shape than relatives like ...