Modern human and archaic Neanderthal skulls side by side, showing difference in nasal height Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

How do you tell? Our close evolutionary cousins, the Neanderthals, make look like us but there are distinct features in their skulls that set them apart. Palaeoanthropologist describes the main ...

In this feature, compare the skulls and jawbones of a Neanderthal and an early modern human and see if you can ferret out the many anatomical dissimiliarities that paleoanthropologists use to ...

Middle: 'Virtual fossil' of Last Common Ancestor Bottom: Neanderthal skull found in La Ferrassie, France, and dating from 53 to 66 thousand years ago. Now curated in the Musée de l'Homme in ...

Neanderthals did have larger faces than early moderns, but the size discrepancy is enhanced here by the fact that the Cro Magnon skull has no teeth. When you compare the skulls from the side ...

A 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton found in the foothills of Iraq is believed to have been a woman aged in her mid-forties, according to researchers who pieced her skull back together.

The rare discovery of the Neanderthal skull came from an Iraqi cave where ... empathetic species" as Shanidar Z was leaned against her side, with her left hand curled under her head and a rock ...