A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

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

The significant push back in the date of origin of modern-day humans is notable. It indicates that, in the last 800,000 years ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

A figure of Homo erectus, whose ruggedness and capabilities may have been going underestimated - Copyright AFP SAUL LOEB A figure of Homo erectus, whose ruggedness ...

Analysis of a jawbone in the Hualongdong cave in eastern China dated at 300,000 years old has shown an intriguing array of features both archaic and modern. The nearly complete mandible together with ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists have introduced what they believe may be a new ancient human species. The Juluren, or "large head people," are believed to have lived in eastern Asia over 100,000 years ...

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