A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...
Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...
Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...
He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...
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The ancient skull that changed science

The discovery of Homo Longi challenged long held ideas about human evolution. Known as Dragon Man, this ancient human did not fit existing categories. His skull revealed a unique mix of primitive and ...
Scientists used a particle accelerator to reconstruct the 3.7-million-year-old face of Little Foot, one of the most complete ...
The skull of the Australopithecus nicknamed 'Little Foot'. (Wits University/CC BY SA 4.0) Scientists have reconstructed the ...
A human skull hung on a cave wall in northern Greece for more than 300,000 years. When a villager spotted it in 1960, cemented in place by mineral deposits, it launched a scientific mystery that would ...
KANAB, Utah (WKRC) - Archaeologists are offering a $3,000 reward to find the person who stole a human skull from a 1,700-year-old protected site. Officials learned the skull had been taken after ...