Discovered approximately 90 years ago, the fossil was reanalyzed using advanced micro-CT scanning and 3D modeling. A ...

Study applies new techniques to a fossilized child's skull found in northern Israeli cave, and finds physical characteristics ...

Around 140,000 years ago, a Neanderthal and a modern human got it on. We know nothing about the situation that led to this ...

A child’s skull from Skhul Cave reveals the earliest hybrid of humans and Neanderthals, reshaping human evolution theories.

When the bones were first excavated from Skhul Cave in northern Israel in 1931, archaeologists recognized that the child ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...

The skeleton of a five-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago, and which has characteristics of both species, was found in a prehistoric cave in northern Israel.The post Earliest evidence ...

Who were the Neanderthals—and why did they go extinct? Neanderthals were a hardy species, but these ancient human relatives disappeared 40,000 years ago. Here’s what scientists know.

At first glance, fossilized bones suggested that Neanderthals were human-like. But a closer look reveals the characteristics that differentiate our ancient ancestors from modern Homo sapiens.

Other Neanderthals in his social group may have supported him in his final years. The original reconstruction of the ‘Old Man of La Chapelle’ by scientist Pierre Marcellin Boule led to the reason why ...