New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

Discovered approximately 90 years ago, the fossil was reanalyzed using advanced micro-CT scanning and 3D modeling. A ...

Past investigations have already showcased that the ability to speak in a particular language was facilitated in the Homo ...

The Skhul child fossil, about 140,000 years old, combines human-like and Neanderthal-like traits in the skull, jaw, and inner ...

It was supposed to be impossible. But the evidence just keeps mounting. A 140,000-year-old child’s skull discovered in Israel ...

The skull of a small child who lived and died many millennia ago represents the oldest direct evidence to date of the ...

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old ...

Israeli-French research applies new techniques to a fossilized child's skull found in northern Israeli cave, and finds ...

Yet despite this closeness, Neanderthals' (Homo neanderthalensis) and Homo sapiens' lineages diverged sometime between 400,000 and 800,000 years ago, and the two species differed in many ways ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of the genus Homo (the broad biological classification ...

An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research ...