Exciting new research reveals a fascinating connection between the ancient Dragon Man skull, unearthed in China, and the ...

"Our current findings have shown that human evolution in East Asia was continuous," Gao said. "The links between Homo erectus and later Homo sapiens are still unclear, but this issue is a key to ...

In 1958, a seemingly insignificant discovery made by farmers in the Guangdong province of southern China would soon challenge centuries of human evolutionary theory. While collecting bat guano for ...

“Maba 1 was considered a 'Chinese Neanderthal' for their resemblance manifested in the facial area. However, this study did not find characteristics uniquely belonging to Homo neanderthalensis ...

Lost Civilisation Underwater? 140,000-Year-Old Homo Erectus Skull May Hold The Key To Secret The site could be the first physical evidence of the lost landmass known as Sundaland, which submerged ...

Far before modern humans ever walked the Earth, our Homo erectus ancestors made arduous journeys to the present-day islands of Southeast Asia. Fossil remnants of H. erectus have been left all across ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how ...

She also explained that the human fossils at Huanlongdong belong to ancient humans with physical characteristics between the Homo erectus and modern human stages -- which is unlike any other premodern ...

Homo erectus skull to which the unknow species, H. aff. Erectus has been classified. Credit: Emőke Dénes / CC BY-SA 4.0 Researchers have uncovered ancient facial bones in a cave in northern Spain that ...

“We hypothesise that the Dmanisi hominins did not share a unique common ancestor with H. erectus or H. ergaster, and we cannot support their attribution to either of those species,” they continue.

The human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens. Credit: Nadina CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikipedia commons The prehistoric human ...

The important head, known as the Dali skull, was found 40 years ago in China. It was once a member of the early species – and our ancestor – the Homo erectus.