Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest ...

A new study of a 1-million-year-old human skull found in central China revealed a previously unknown branch of the human family ...

A human skull believed to be older than a million years could alter our understanding of human evolution. Leading scientists have made a eureka breakthrough after analysing an ancient skull, known as ...

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

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now ...

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

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

Reactions to a series titled “Human” might range from “It’s about time we got our own nature show!” to the question of whether a mere five-part series could ever be worthy of our magnificence. Both ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that autism may have it roots in how the human brain has evolved. "Our results suggest that some of the same genetic changes that make the human brain ...

A handful of teeth unearthed in Ethiopia has led to the discovery of a new species of human ancestor. The finding, announced in August in the journal Nature, began with a Valentine’s Day trek seven ...

Researchers have discovered a new species of human ancestor that existed alongside Homo sapiens. Researchers working in Ethiopia’s Afar region have discovered a new species of human ancestor, ...

A skull that was found embedded in a cave wall in Greece more than 60 years ago may finally have an identification. A new dating of the minerals that surrounded and grew over the mysterious Petralona ...