Neanderthal genes may explain why some people have Chiari malformation type I, a condition in which the brain bulges out of the back of the skull.

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, suggesting she was a hybrid, according to a new study. However, not everyone ...

Newly uncovered skulls in China have both human and Neanderthal features, a mix that so far hasn’t been seen in a hominid fossil. Writing in the journal Science, researchers described the ...

Those who've studied Skull 5 say it also provides support for the provocative idea that, 1.8 million years ago, only one kind of early human held sway, rather than the throng of different species ...

Amateur archaeologist Keith Glasscock found human remains that were revealed to be between 8,000 and 10,000 ... They came in and excavated and what they did find were parts of the human skull, ...

But Ms. Meyer, 62, who meant to use the skull only as a “conversation piece” and did not really want to part with it, put a “really high price on it,” $4,000.