The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

Hippopotamuses are some of the largest creatures on earth and the deadliest animals in Africa. These territorial behemoths ...

To test the limits, the researchers started by firing a powerful, ultrafast laser into the side of a volunteer’s head. The ...

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.

Despite their genetic contributions to present-day East Asians and Oceanians, what Denisovans looked like has remained an ...

In a nutshell Scientists successfully transmitted light through an entire adult human head for the first time, overcoming ...