A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The ...

Learn more about the reconstruction of the Yunxian 2 cranium, and about what it might mean for the history of three human lineages: Homo longi, Homo sapiens, and Homo neanderthalensis.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

This week, researchers identified a key driver of pancreatic cancer spread. Oral bacteria were linked to Parkinson's disease ...

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