Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Petralona skull is a ...

It’s the Kingdom of the calcite skull. A horned hominid skull might sound like something out of Greek mythology, but it actually could be a separate species of human ancestor that lived alongside ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually ...

The skull of an infant ape buried by a volcano 13 million years ago has preserved intriguing clues about the ancestor humans shared with apes -- including a likely African origin, scientists said ...

Neanderthals, meet modern humans. Modern humans, say hello to Neanderthals. Now would you two care for a date? That was possible some 55,000 years ago in modern-day Israel, archaeologists announced ...

A recent study has settled a century-long debate surrounding a collection of skulls at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The study — titled “The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould ...

A mysterious skull with a stalagmite growing out of its head is about 300,000 years old and neither human nor Neanderthal, a new study finds. The skull was reportedly discovered attached to the wall ...