One of the earliest known human burials unearthed in Skhul Cave was a cross between modern humans and Neanderthals with an ...

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

A child's skull, almost 140,000 years old, was found in Israel. Researchers believe it shows interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals. The skull has both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...

Researchers identify 146,000-year-old 'dragon man' skull as a Denisovan using dental calculus after DNA extraction attempts failed, revealing insights about this human species.

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

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

A human skull found in a Goodwill donation box in Arizona is believed to be "historic," and not related to a crime, police say. The skull was placed in the donation box at a Goodwill in Goodyear, ...

The human skull discovery was made by an anthropologist in the Halloween section of the North Myers store, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

That’s why it is always so exciting when scientists uncover ancient human skulls hidden in fossil records. An ancient human skull found in China is making waves because it’s unlike anything we ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on making commercial use of a person’s remains. By Kwame Anthony Appiah In the 1970s, as a middle-school science teacher, I bought a preserved human skull ...