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In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.
In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...
"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...
The human skull has many components. In fact, in an average adult human, the skull combines 22 bones. One of these bones is the mandible, more commonly known as the lower jaw.
The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...
An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, ... or lower jaw — in the Hualongdong region of eastern China in 2015, ...
This X-ray shows a broken jaw. The dark angular line near the bottom right of the jaw is the fracture. Photo courtesy of Lisa Chan, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona.
Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.
It included a jaw and leg bones and a skull that belongs to a child, but mystery still surrounds the find. The remains were likely to belong to a 12 or 13-year-old.
Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...
‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree. Hidden down a well for decades, the stunningly complete cranium is stirring debate about the increasing number of fossils ...
An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike any other premodern human fossil ever found, ... or lower jaw — in the Hualongdong region of eastern China in 2015, ...
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