A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely related to Denisovans. The fossil skull dubbed Yunxian 2 is one of three ...

A 1 million-year-old skull found in China may challenge current theories of human evolution and the origins of Homo sapiens.

A new study of a 1-million-year-old human skull found in central China revealed a previously unknown branch of the human family tree, dramatically pushing back the accepted timeline of human evolution ...

A human skull believed to be older than a million years could alter our understanding of human evolution. Leading scientists have made a eureka breakthrough after analysing an ancient skull, known as ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they understood about our origins. The fossil, named Yunxian 2, was extracted from ...

BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- A new study of a 1-million-year-old human skull found in central China revealed a previously unknown branch of the human family tree, dramatically pushing back the ...

A digitally reconstructed skull discovered in China has scientists questioning long-held beliefs about the timeline of human evolution.

A reanalysis of a one-million-year-old human skull found in China is challenging the established timeline of human evolution, and suggests a new ...

Aylwyn Scally, a researcher in human evolutionary genetics at the University of Cambridge, discusses an ancient skull that could rewrite the timeline of human evolution.

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

Digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia ...