A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

A 69-million-year-old skull ... shape, jaw musculature and hind limbs suggest it was highly specialised for diving in pursuit ...

A recent study found a nearly complete skull in ... oldest known modern bird. Its brain structure and long beak resemble those of today’s waterfowl, even though its strong jaw muscles are ...

Using modern DNA analysis ... Greek Ptolemaic dynasty. The skull also challenged assumptions that the person was healthy, with an underdeveloped upper jaw and asymmetrical shape suggesting ...

In this feature, compare the skulls and jawbones of a Neanderthal and an early modern human and see if ... above), we present casts of two famous ancient skulls and associated jawbones housed ...

finding that the skulls show a combination of both Neanderthal and more ancient morphologies. The researchers estimate that the skulls are about 430,000 years old—the oldest specimens with Neanderthal ...

Crystal skulls ... been made with modern carving implements. Both museums estimate that their skulls date to sometime in the mid to late 1800s, a time when public interest in ancient cultures ...

Female Homo neanderthalensis skull discovered at Tabun Cave at Mount Carmel in Israel. Known as Tabun 1, this Neanderthal specimen is around 130,000 years old. Neanderthals evolved in Europe and Asia ...

A piece of skull found in a cave in Greece suggests ... The same story likely applies to a roughly 194,000-year-old jaw bone belonging to another modern human, which was found in Israel's Misliya ...