The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

Two sets of ancient fossil human skulls were unearthed in 1989 and 1990 in Hubei province. In 1994, paleoanthropologist Jia Lanpo named the fossils "Yunxian Man" after the location where they were ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...

This reconstructed visage of "Dragon Man" from the Harbin Skull is linked to a group of early humans called the Denisovans.

The skull was found by a worker in Harbin ... The end result is a lifelike, science-backed rendering of this ancient human's appearance, offering the most realistic look at our Denisovan's ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkable new species of ancient human with unusually large skulls who lived alongside our ancestors in China. The species, known as Juluren - meaning 'big head ...

These include nearly 20 ancient human fossils, a well-preserved skull, over 400 stone tools, and numerous bones with evidence of human processing. A recent excavation from April to November 2024 ...

The "Yunxian Man" skull fossils are the most complete ancient human skull fossils originating from the same era discovered so far in the inland of Eurasia. They have filled a gap in the human ...

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The ...

The variety of burial practices found in Neolithic Italy, particularly the special treatment of skulls and bones, suggests these ancient communities saw human remains as spiritually significant ...

The human lineage split from the chimpanzee lineage around seven million years ago. Fossil evidence relating to the earliest hominins that lived after this split is scarce, but it provides important ...