“Seeing Lucy’s face is like glimpsing a bridge to the distant past, offering a visual connection to human evolution,” Brazil’s Cicero Moraes, a pioneer in the field of forensic facial reconstructions, ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

The new research showed that both chimpanzees and Neanderthals had larger, faster-growing faces, while modern humans have ...

Chinese scientists in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China used 3D technology to reconstruct the face of a ...

The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.

Most of a human face found in northern Spain belongs to a primitive archaic human, marking the oldest known evidence of hominins in western Europe, anthropologists announced Wednesday. The facial ...

A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone and upper jaw – was found ...

The exact mechanisms behind the differences in facial features between Neanderthals and modern humans are still not fully ...

The partial skull bears many similarities to Homo erectus ... More information: Rosa Huguet et al, The earliest human face of Western Europe, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08681-0 ...

A fragment of a face from a human ancestor is the oldest in Western Europe, according to the results of a new study published this week. The incomplete skull — a section of the left cheek bone ...

Scientists say a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old ...