Head wounds in the fossilized skull of a Paleolithic man suggest foul play.

The DNA of a whale shows its father was a beluga and its mother was a narwhal.

Genetic information from dozens of individuals living 700 to 10,000 years ago reveals connections between Clovis and Native Americans and South Americans.

Prehistoric Andeans seemed especially fond of trepanation—holes drilled in the skull as a treatment for various ills.

The function of early hominins’ enlarged brow ridges, and their reduction in size in Homo sapiens, have puzzled paleoanthropologists for decades.

Scientists have identified a new genus of extinct horse that lived in North America during the last ice age. 

Ancient bones of the newly described toothless, stout-nosed dolphin Inermorostrum xenops suggest that it slurped its food.

Analysis of 40 European archaeological sites suggests a gradual extinction of Neanderthals over thousands of years.  

An examination of 17 ancient skulls shows that some Neanderthal features arose as far back as 430,000 years ago.