Over 100 years ago the unearthing of a skull in the Sussex countryside became an international story of scientific discovery, ...

ARUSHA: FOR many years, we have been trying to solve a big question about the origin of man and the secrets behind creation ...

A human skull hung on a cave wall in northern Greece for more than 300,000 years. When a villager spotted it in 1960, ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

A new study explains why humans have chins while other primates do not. Researchers found that the chin likely formed as a ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...

The bony facial protrusion might be an evolutionary byproduct that resulted from changes to other parts of the skull, according to a new study ...

Buried deep within a limestone cave in northern Greece, the Petralona skull has stumped scientists for decades. Found embedded in rock and encased in mineral deposits, it doesn’t fit neatly into the ...

Tiny Plant-Eater Has A Brain Case Like Nothing Scientists Have Seen In A Nutshell Advanced brain in a tiny body: Despite being only 18 inches long, Foskeia pelendonum had a surprisingly sophisticated ...

Ghost lineages reveal themselves through ancient genes that still exist in living beings today.

“The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull,” University of Buffalo biological ...