New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

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

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

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

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

Goodsell was only 29 years old when he died, meaning that he spent more years as “the skull that washed up on the beach” than ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

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

Instead of using a patient's own bone or titanium to repair skull fractures, researchers are working on using artificial materials. New research—surprisingly—shows that the body's immune system helps ...

These 3D renderings of mouse skulls clearly show the effects of RUNX2 deficiency. Fgfr3-creER mice, which were the control group, and Fgfr3-Runx2c ...