Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

Due to their size and abundance, these creatures shaped the ecosystems in which they lived – but today all are nearly gone ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in ...

In 16th-century Austria, a strange skull was mistaken for a dragon and ... their origins may be tangled in real-world biology and mistaken identity. In the Middle Ages, narwhal tusks were sold ...

At the time, Lea County Undersheriff Michael Walker told the station authorities were still working to determine whether the skulls they found were real human skulls. Anyone with information ...

A human skull was found in a wooded area that borders a cemetery, Baltimore County police said.County police said a person walking near Kenilworth Drive and Bosley Avenue in the Towson area ...

EASTON — A likely human skull and bones are among the remains discovered in Easton this week, prosecutors said. The Bristol County District Attorney's Office said that "more human bones" were ...

Low TBX1 also occurs in certain genetic conditions causing altered skull base morphology. This study provides a greater understanding of human disease and evolution. Humans, Homo sapiens ...

Generations of museum-goers have stood rapt before a 150-year-old taxidermy diorama that shows a simulated lion attack—and contains a real human skull. At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History ...