A mysterious human skull found in the 1930s has been identified as an existing species after once being thought to be a new species all together, according to researchers. The studies — posted in the ...

Two new studies published in Science and Cell have shed light on a mysterious skull found in China, and in the process have provided insight into the lives of a previously little-known ancient human.

A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell 1 and ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

A newly-reconstructed million-year-old skull could drastically rewrite our understanding of when and where modern humans first emerged. Analysis of the fossil, found in China, suggests Homo sapiens, ...

Back in 1929, archaeologists unearthed several human skeletons (seven adults and three children) while excavating Skuhl Cave just south of Haifa, Israel. Dating back 140,000 years to the end of the ...

A digital reconstruction of a one-million-year old skull in China called Yunxian 2 suggested that our species started to emerge half a million years earlier than previously believed, according to a ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...

Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...