The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

A new AI-based facial reconstruction has revealed the strikingly intense face of Ludwig van Beethoven. Using skull images, a death mask, and DNA insights, scientists have recreated the moody genius’s ...

Through genetic and protein testing, scientists detected residual mitochondrial DNA from ancient days in dental plaque and ...

The tool can estimate the biological sex of a skull with 97 per cent accuracy, outperforming the 82 per cent accuracy of human assessors, and it works five times faster. AI took a different route ...

An international team of researchers has approximated the face of a woman whose 45,000-year-old remains were discovered more than 70 years ago. The severed skull of the Zlatý kůň woman — the ...