Modern human and archaic Neanderthal skulls side by side, showing difference in nasal height Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

A Neanderthal skill (left) and a modern human skull (right ... and 33 chimpanzees. The comparison revealed that “the midfaces [the region between our eyes and lips] of Neanderthals are ...

In comparison, the Neanderthal's body was suited to cold environments ... Listen to the tale of the first adult Neanderthal skull unearthed and what we've uncovered about our close relative in the ...

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Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras, a professor of human paleontology at Complutense University of Madrid in Spain, along with his colleagues characterized this unique collection of specimens from a small ...

Palaeoanthropologist describes the main features of the female Shanidar Z Neanderthal skull. Palaeo-anthropologist Dr Emma Pomeroy describes the main features of Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal skull ...

(The originals are at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris.) The Neanderthal skull and jawbone (above, at left) belong to the so-called "Old Man" of La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a nearly complete skeleton ...

A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton found in the foothills of Iraq is believed to have been a woman aged in her mid-forties, according to researchers who pieced her skull back together.

From a flaky skull, found “as flat as a pizza” on a cave floor in northern Iraq, the face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman named “Shanidar Z” has been reconstructed.

Note that the Neanderthal is painted plaster of paris, with the maroon spots indicating pieces missing from the original. The Cro Magnon skull is molded fiberglass. When you view the casts head-on ...