March 17 (UPI) --New research by anthropologists at Stony Brook University and the University of Texas at Austin confirm the human skull and bipedalism co-evolved. Scientists have previously ...

The human skull ... is to move the mouth, allowing it to open and close when needed, such as when a person needs to chew food. The mandible is the only bone in the skull that can move and is ...

The 60m wide natural limestone sinkhole at Chichén Itzá on the Yucatan Peninsula is a known Maya repository for sacrifices, both human ... of the skulls exhibited holes on either side near ...

said the skull is the first “well dated” modern human to have lived in the time frame when interbreeding with Neanderthals was a possibility. open image in gallery A model of a Neanderthal man ...

The ancient hominin – which researchers said was “probably” a 50-year-old man – would have had an “extremely wide” face ... type of early human. The jaw bone and skull fragment ...

Homicide detectives and the coroner’s office were investigating the discovery of a human skull in the Angeles National ... The remains were found over the side of a cliff by two hunters about ...

One of the most remarkable aspects of the Harbin cranium is its massive size, which, at 9 inches long and more than 6 inches wide, is significantly larger than the modern human skull. The skull ...

Researchers have named the new species Homo longi and gave it the nickname “Dragon Man,” after the Long Jiang, which means "Dragon River”, region of northeast China. Scientists have said a ...