Scientists have long puzzled over the Lapedo child’s curious blend of human and Neanderthal traits ... jawbone and pitted ...

Gary Frank Sotherden went missing in 1976 while on a hunting trip near the Porcupine River in northeastern Alaska Abigail Adams is a Human Interest ... for seven years. A skull found in the ...

The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull belonged to a child who ...

A Utah fisherman found what appears to be a human skull, authorities said. Shortly after 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25, a man — later identified as Phillip Morfin — was fishing near a business ...

Inside the box, he found a fossilized mold of a brain and a matching child’s skull partially buried in stone. Dart quickly realized the significance of the finding, and by February 1925 had published ...

The skull has been stored in an access-controlled area of the museum designated for human remains, the museum spokesperson said. Penn Museum records show the child's remains were collected some ...