The skull, called Yunxian 2, appears to be that of a man possibly 30 to 40 years old, according to paleoanthropologist Xijun Ni of Fudan University and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the ...

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

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Now, a new analysis of these skulls, known as Yunxian 1, 2, and 3, is challenging long-held beliefs about our origins, ...

Led by paleoanthropologist Professor Chris Stringer from London’s Natural History Museum, the team originally believed the skull to be an earlier ancestor of humanity, named Homo erectus, because it ...

A skull discovered in China, known as Yunxian 2, could reshape our understanding of human origins. The roughly million-year-old fossil was long classified as Homo erectus, but new analysis suggests it ...

A new study claims that Yunxian-2, a human skull found decades ago in China, suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in Hubei province that was so badly deformed during fossilisation that ...

The fossil skull found in China is shaking the foundations of human evolutionary theory. Scientists have virtually “repaired” ...