Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...

A child's skull, almost 140,000 years old, was found in Israel. Researchers believe it shows interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals. The skull has both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...

The researchers used modern CT scanning techniques to get a new and detailed look, suggesting that the child might be a ...