Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new reconstruction (center) of the crushed Yunxian 2 skull (right) found in China is seen with another squashed skull (left) ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

In 1990, researchers pulled a damaged cranium out of the layers of sediment in Central China. The skull was difficult to identify due to the distortion, but was assigned to the early human lineage ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be ...