Most prehistoric Europeans had dark skin, hair and eyes well into the Iron Age, about 3,000 years ago, new research finds. Scientists found that the genes that cause lighter skin, hair and eyes ...

In 1903, the remains of a 10,000-year-old man were discovered in the Cheddar Gorge of Somerset, England. Dubbed the “Cheddar Man,” it remains the oldest almost complete skeleton ever found in Britain.

University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin, eye and hair pigmentation evolved over the past 45,000 years. Findings indicate that lighter pigmentation traits emerged ...

If you have the rarest hair color and eye color combination, you're one in a million—or more! Do you have dark brown hair and brown eyes? Then you have something in common with most people around the ...

Having red hair and blue eyes is very rare. Only 17% of the world’s population have blue eyes, and only 1 to 2% have red hair. In the array of possible natural hair colors, dark hues are the most ...