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

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

An ancient skull unearthed in China’s Hubei Province may push back the emergence of the human species by 400,000 years ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

A fossilized skull discovered in central China and dated to roughly 1 million years old has upended the timeline of human evolution. In a study published in the journal Science on Thursday, ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place ...

(Image credit: Sam Falconer) Our species is the last living member of the human family tree. But just 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals walked the Earth, and hundreds of thousands of years before then, ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...