A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about ...

Fossil bite mark analysis with AI shows early humans were prey for leopards, reshaping what we know about human evolution.

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

A newly reconstructed 1-million-year-old skull from central China may rewrite key chapters of human evolution. Researchers say the fossil, Yunxian 2, represents the earliest known member of a lineage ...

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

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

The biological study of species offers no equivalent to such transmutation. An individual which belongs to a given species ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and ...

New research on the size relationship between brains and wisdom teeth suggests that bigger brains aren’t necessarily the driving force in human evolution.

The team analyzed DNA from about 100 trees per species, searching for genetic clues about the history and future of each ...

Stoats are part of the weasel family, and their ancestors were much larger. But as open grasslands spread across parts of the ...