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

The ancient cranium - discovered in Petralona Cave, about 22 miles south-east of Thessaloniki in Greece - is less than ...

A new dating of the minerals that surrounded and grew over the mysterious Petralona skull places its age at 277,000 years at least – and suggesting it is a member of a primitive, extinct hominid that ...

Reporter Alasdair Keane finds out how a new science centre will play a major role in the conservation of the world’s most threatened species, the black rhino. The International Centre for Zoo Science ...

Israeli and French researchers have discovered in Israel the earliest scientific evidence of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, Tel Aviv University announced on Wednesday. The ...