This is because the new analysis of the craniums also puts the Denisovans as the most closely related extinct human species ...

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

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

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

The reanalysis further pushes back the divergence time of modern humans — Homo sapiens — whose ancestors are estimated to have lived in Africa around 500,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who lived between ...

Necklaces dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic have been recreated from caves in southern Spain, with some of the beads made ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis potentially shakes up ...

In 1989, archaeologists excavated Cova Negra cave in Spain and found the skull fragment of a 6-year-old Neanderthal. CT scans revealed inner ear malformations consistent with Down syndrome. Her ...

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal features, leading researchers to think she is possibly a hybrid. If she is a ...

New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...

A million-year-old skull, Yunxian 2, discovered in China, challenges the Africa-centric model of human evolution.