Background On January 26th, the Chelsea Police Department responded to a call from the local Goodwill store about the discovery of a possible human skull within donated clothing. The skull was ...

(KRON) — A forensic genetic genealogy team recently uncovered a mystery behind a partial human skull found on a beach in Northern California 32 years ago. The woman’s skull was spotted near Trinidad ...

Part of a human skull discovered on a Northern California beach more than 32 years ago was just identified as a woman who went missing five years earlier, authorities said. In 1993, a man found the ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older than previously believed.

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

Researchers have identified a variant in the gene TBX1 as key in the development of the unique morphology at the base of the skull. TBX1 is present at higher levels in humans than in closely related ...

One of the biggest mysteries in human evolution has just been solved. In 2010, a groundbreaking genetic analysis revealed that east Asia was once home to a previously unknown group of enigmatic ...

A human skull dating back millennia was discovered on a riverbank in eastern Indiana, a local coroner announced Oct. 13. Fayette County Coroner Eddie Richardson said a skull found over the summer has ...