The move will see the skull cap and other remains of the first-ever Homo erectus found returned, after they were looted during Dutch colonial era.

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

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it’s probably closely ...

The split between modern humans and our sister species would have happened far earlier than previously believed. That would leave Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans potentially existing on the ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old Chinese skull suggests human divergence occurred 400,000 years earlier and in ...

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

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in ...

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

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

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