Scientists have digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis potentially shakes up ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that ...

A digital reconstruction of the nearly one-million-year-old Yunxian 2 cranium from China, which corrected previous distortions inherent in the fossil ...

“Because [Yunxian 2] is about a million years old, by definition, the Homo longi clade must be about a million years old at ...

It's a long-held belief that one of our earliest ancestors, Homo habilis, was the first of our genus to transition from prey to predator. Archaeological evidence suggests that they were among the ...

Scientists have just uncovered a shocking truth: Homo habilis, once thought to be an early apex predator, was actually hunted ...

In July 2025, at the archaeological site of Orozmani in the Kvemo Kartli region of the country of Georgia, an international ...

The Middle Pleistocene was a turning point for human adaptation in East Asia, as shifting climates reshaped landscapes and ...

Human is a five-part Nova series, produced by the BBC, that takes a look at the origins and survival of the human race. The host is paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi, and she travels to various ...

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Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...