But there was one problem: the skull had been crushed and distorted over time. Its true shape had been hidden by pressure, age, and damage. Some features ...

A warm body in the rainforest gives off a loud chemical signal. For most mosquitoes, that signal could belong to almost any ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

But the next time you squash one of these bloodsuckers, consider this: you are participating in a bitter rivalry that goes back to the time of Homo erectus. It turns out that mosquitoes have been ...

Researchers push back the timeline for their arrival by 600,000 years, raising new questions about how the species spread around the globe.

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

A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than ...

A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previous studies indicated, rewriting our understanding of early human ...

A TERRIFYING new dinosaur with a swordlike crest has been compared to a beast from “hell”. The prehistoric predator was found in a remote part of the Sahara after 95 million years in a ...

“While Homo erectus, our distant ancestor, is widely recognized to have originated in Africa before dispersing into Eurasia, ...

Three ancient skulls found in central China are far older than scientists once believed, pushing back the timeline of Homo erectus in China and altering long-held views about early human movement ...

New research dates Homo erectus skulls in China to nearly 1.8 million years ago, making them the oldest hominin fossils in East Asia.