Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution in the upcoming new ...

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

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 ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Homo erectus, which many believe was an ancestor of modern Homo sapiens, is thought to have died out 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Archaeologist Harold Berghuis of Leiden University led the team that conducted the research, finding two Homo erectus skull fragments between 162,000 and 119,000 years old. These fossils were ...

Get our newsletter! The Dragon Man skull, described as Homo longi in 2021, belongs to a Denisovan, according to new research. Fu et al., Cell, 2025 ...

A recent study published in the journal L’anthropologie provides new data on one of the most fascinating mysteries of human evolution: how we developed mathematical thinking, that is, the ability to ...

After she was granted access to the skull, the first thing Fu did was look for DNA, specifically in the teeth and the petrous bone, a dense part of the skull near the inner ear that is known to be ...

Given the skull’s age and backstory, Fu said she knew it would be challenging to extract ancient DNA from the fossil to better understand where it fit in the human family tree.