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

In 1989, archaeologists excavated Cova Negra cave in Spain and found the skull fragment of a 6-year-old Neanderthal. CT scans ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ relationship with coastlines.

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

Ever since moviegoers saw the first ‘Jurassic Park,’ millions have wondered if scientists could make a dinosaur in the lab.

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, ...

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

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years, most large-brained humans can be traced to just five major branches: ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

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

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