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 ...

Two fossil skulls discovered in Yunxian, northern China, are now dated to approximately 1.77 million years ago, making them ...

Through the analysis of quartz gravel samples from ground strata, a China-US research team has recently pushed back the date ...

In 2021, scientists made a breakthrough when they classified a 140,000-year-old skull from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, as ...

A human skull hung on a cave wall in northern Greece for more than 300,000 years. When a villager spotted it in 1960, ...

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The size of this fossil is very small compared to the common sea cow. Researchers used new technology to re-measure this ...

Our DNA reveals extinct "ghost lineages" that shaped human evolution, painting a complex, "braided stream" of history rather than a simple progression. These ancient groups, leaving no fossils, ...

What if Homo erectus (H. erectus), the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived in China much earlier than we thought? Research published in Science Advances may rewrite our understanding of early ...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

A TERRIFYING new dinosaur with a swordlike crest has been compared to a beast from “hell”. The prehistoric predator was found ...