A team of researchers used a flattened skull of a female Neanderthal who lived some 75,000 years ago to reconstruct the woman’s likeness, providing an uncannily vision of her appearance in life.

A 40-something woman was buried in a cave 75,000 years ago, laid to rest in a gully hollowed out to accommodate her body. Her left hand was curled under her head, and a rock behind her head may have ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

Researchers from the University of Western Attica successfully reconstructed the skull of the extinct dwarf hippopotamus, Hippopotamus creutzburgi, using 3D digital imaging techniques. The study, ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an ...

(CNN) — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

Researchers have recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal after her skull was discovered during a 2018 excavation. Archaeologists and conservators from the University of Cambridge in ...

A nearly 140,000-year-old child’s skull found in Skhul Cave, Israel, may show evidence of interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals, researchers said in a new study. The partially ...

Completed facial reconstruction derived from the Jericho Skull (© Trustees of the British Museum, photo by RN-DS partnership) The oldest portrait in the British Museum’s collection is neither a ...

The reconstructed face of the victim. The body was found washed ashore in Imperial Beach in 1995, but no one could identify the remains. Labeled a John Doe, his skull’s 3D images were sent to NCMEC, ...

A roughly 1-million-year-old Chinese hominid skull has long vexed efforts to nail down its evolutionary identity. Fossil comparisons using a new digital reconstruction of this specimen, dubbed the ...