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

In 1989, archaeologists excavated Cova Negra cave in Spain and found the skull fragment of a 6-year-old Neanderthal. CT scans ...

Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ relationship with coastlines.

A fossilized skull unearthed in central China may push back the emergence of Homo sapiens by at least half a million years, dramatically challenging ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now ...

Ever since moviegoers saw the first ‘Jurassic Park,’ millions have wondered if scientists could make a dinosaur in the lab.

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

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

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

Until now, the earliest known evidence of Homo sapiens dates back 300,000 years in Africa. But the reclassification of Yunxian 2 suggests that three major human lineages – Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, ...

A reconstruction of a one-million-year-old skull suggested that our species started to emerge hundreds of thousands of years ...