It seems a little unfair. The ladies love blue eyes, and babies already have a cuteness advantage. The iris is the muscular ring around the pupil. And its color depends on a protein called melanin ...

The well-preserved remains of a baby boy who died 17,000 years ago in what is now Italy reveal that he had blue eyes, dark skin and curly hair. Scientists have unspooled the life history of an ice ...

The baby boy’s recovered genome suggests he ... years ago—and he likely had brown skin, curly dark hair and blue eyes. His remains were discovered in 1998, in the Grotta delle Mura cave ...