Scientists have digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis potentially shakes up ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The ...

The reanalysis further pushes back the divergence time of modern humans — Homo sapiens — whose ancestors are estimated to have lived in Africa around 500,000 years ago, Neanderthals, who lived between ...

A new discovery in China has challenged a decades-old belief about the evolution of humans. Earliest humans were thought to ...

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 ...

A study published in the journal Science on Friday revealed that a reanalysis of an ancient human skull fossil, unearthed in Hubei province and dating back more than 1 million years, may rewrite the ...

A crushed million-year-old skull found in China that has been digitally reconstructed reopens a debate in human evolution.

A groundbreaking new study suggests that Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over one million years ago - pushing back our species’ origins by some 400,000 years compared with genetic estimates.

The ancient cranium - discovered in Petralona Cave, about 22 miles south-east of Thessaloniki in Greece - is less than ...

Scientists believe they're close to solving an ancient mystery involving a strange hominin skull that was neither Neanderthal nor human found fused to a cave wall with a stalagmite sticking out of the ...

A skull that was found embedded in a cave wall in Greece more than 60 years ago may finally have an identification.