The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans ...

The skull, called Yunxian 2, appears to be that of a man possibly 30 to 40 years old, according to paleoanthropologist Xijun Ni of Fudan University and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

Humans are much older than earlier estimates, an analysis of a skull fossil in China has shown. Previous studies have suggested that humans first appeared in Africa 600,000 years ago, but the latest ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

A 1-million-year-old skull in China, linked to Dragon Man and Denisovans, is reshaping theories of human evolution and ...