Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather ...

Researchers took teeth from eight different groups and analyzed them as they believe the evolution of tooth shape takes place ...

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

A Pennsylvania fire chief has been charged with cracking his baby daughter’s skull — allegedly admitting ... out of a swing and “then took the child out and then threw the child on the ...

Neanderthal genes in living people seem to have come from one phase of mating around 55,000 to 60,000 years ago, yet we know from DNA in Homo sapiens fossils that mating was happening earlier and ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

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The Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania will soon return the skull of an Indigenous American child to an organization in Maine that represents the state's four federally recognized tribes.

Homo heidelbergensis lived in Europe, between 650,000 and 300,000 years ago, just before Neanderthal man. Homo heidelbergensis, shares features with both modern humans and our homo erectus ancestors.