Silas Hudson, John Looby, James Rankin and Larry Stranko from Coles County set a World Ultra Cycling Association record this summer for their relay ride on U.S. 40 across Illinois, ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

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: ...

The Yunxian 2 skull from Hubei links Denisovans and Dragon Man, suggesting a complex human split in East Asia over 1 million ...

Homo sapiens may have split off from ancestor species in Asia around a million years ago, rather than in Africa 600,000 years ...

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 1-million-year-old skull in China, linked to Dragon Man and Denisovans, is reshaping theories of human evolution and ...

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 ...

The findings are based on a reconstruction of a crushed skull discovered in China in 1990, and have the potential to resolve ...