A 31-year-old man miraculously survived getting stabbed through the throat and the base of the skull by a 60-pound white marlin he tried unhooking before the giant fish pounced.

Researchers identify 146,000-year-old 'dragon man' skull as a Denisovan using dental calculus after DNA extraction attempts failed, revealing insights about this human species.

A skull, unearthed nearly a century ago, has led to new revelations in the study of human evolution. Known as “Dragon Man,” the fossil has now been identified as belonging to the Denisovans ...

We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew After years of mystery, we now know what at least one Denisovan looked like.

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Allegheny County police said their detectives were called to a home in Pitcairn on Wednesday following a report that a human skull was found. Police were called to the 700 block of Seventh Street.

The skull, which was elongated and shaped like a cone due to cranial bandaging, had suffered a major trauma to the head—the cause is still unclear.

The skull, which was elongated and shaped like a cone due to cranial bandaging, had suffered a major trauma to the head—the cause is still unclear.

A pair of archaeologists working at a dig site in an ancient cemetery in western Iran have discovered the skull of a young girl that shows evidence of cranial modification. In their paper ...

The skull belonged to a juvenile, and is remarkably well preserved. Credit: Scientific Reports Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday.

Australopithecus sediba -- a small hominin species that lived about 2 million years ago -- had a mix of ape-like and human-like features, while Homo naledi -- a recently-discovered hominin species ...

They focused on the fossil hands of two early human ancestor species recovered from excavations in southern Africa, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi. The individuals lived around 2 ...