A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The ...

A study published in the journal Science on Friday revealed that a reanalysis of an ancient human skull fossil, unearthed in Hubei province and dating back more than 1 million years, may rewrite the ...

The skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province in 1990. However, the skull was badly deformed during fossilisation.

A newly reconstructed 1-million-year-old skull from central China may rewrite key chapters of human evolution. Researchers ...

This is because the new analysis of the craniums also puts the Denisovans as the most closely related extinct human species ...

A groundbreaking new study suggests that Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over one million years ago - pushing back our species’ origins by some 400,000 years compared with genetic estimates.

The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought.

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

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

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 42,000-year-old shell jewelry workshop in France, revealing early symbolic behavior and ...