JG: I chose to sketch this in a weed-infested lot, humming with the sound of mosquitoes. A stunted tree caught my eye, its ...

In an innovative program at a jail in Athens, inmates face their past and are given more freedom. The goal? That they stop coming back.

Now, thanks to ancient DNA and a sculptor’s art, we can meet her again.

A forensic scientist crouches down on a dirty factory floor. There’s a pool of blood, and they delicately dip a swab into it ...

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

A pencil glides across the page, revealing only one side of a human face—detailed eyes, a soft cheekbone, and subtle shadows that hint at the unseen half. The sketch captures both presence and mystery ...

But understanding the fossils’ true place in the human story required solidly dating the site, and that was a tricky task, since precise dating requires knowing which rock layer entombed a given ...

While its age makes it impossible to draw any definitive conclusions, they wrote, the stone could “represent one of the oldest known abstractions of a human face in the prehistoric record." ...

Scarlett Johansson hosted 'Saturday Night Live' as it marked the end of its 50th season on Saturday, May 17. During the 'Victorian Girl Lunch' sketch, the actress, 40, struggled to stay in character.

What came out looked like a face — a strikingly realistic, three-dimensional face. No photograph had ever been taken. No sketch artist had drawn it. The only source was DNA.

Fragments of human facial bones that surfaced in northern Spain have been found to be 1.1 to 1.4 million years old, meaning that they are parts of the oldest human face in Western Europe. The ...

When pieced together, they formed part of the left side of an ancient human face. The team had previously found a jawbone dated to roughly 1.2 million years ago from an unidentified hominin in ...