DNA tests on Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, known as Cheddar Man, show he had “dark to black” skin, blue eyes and dark curly hair, a finding that drastically changes assumptions about early ...

LONDON — “Cheddar Man,” Britain’s oldest, nearly complete human skeleton, had dark skin, blue eyes and dark curly hair when he lived in what is now southwest England 10,000 years ago, scientists who ...

Cheddar Man, the 10,000-year-old skeleton of ancient Briton found in Somerset, England, had his face revealed. A group of scientists from the London Natural History Museums carried out the work of ...

A DNA analysis of Britain’s oldest complete skeleton, also known as “Cheddar Man,” revealed that the first modern Britons may not have been pale, as many people may have assumed, but had “dark to ...

The face of a 10,000-year-old British skeleton nicknamed "Cheddar Man" has been revealed after research carried out by a team of scientists at London's Natural History Museum. SEE ALSO: Scientists ...

We finally know what Cheddar Man looked like but how did he live? The Mesolithic Briton, whose DNA was studied by University College London and the Natural History Museum, would have found Somerset’s ...

Ancient DNA from Cheddar Man, a Mesolithic skeleton discovered in 1903 at Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, has helped Museum scientists paint a portrait of one of the oldest modern humans in ...

Some of the first modern settlers of Britain from 10,000 years ago had dark skin and curly hair, according to new analysis of a historic skeleton. The “Cheddar Man” fossil was discovered in 1903 in a ...

A cutting-edge scientific analysis shows that a Briton from 10,000 years ago had dark brown skin and blue eyes. Researchers from London's Natural History Museum extracted DNA from Cheddar Man, Britain ...