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

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

The recreated skull's features suggest that the fossil belonged to the same lineage as a striking specimen called "Dragon Man ...

The findings suggest Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over 1 million years ago, much earlier than previously believed.

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

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

The Dutch government has agreed to return thousands of fossils to Indonesia from a world-renowned collection, after a ...

The Netherlands said it would give back a major fossil collection to Indonesia, granting its former colony's request to recover historical artefacts, including bones of the "Java Man", the first known ...

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

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