This photo taken on Dec 6, 2024 shows human skull fossil fragments displayed at the exhibition hall of Hualongdong site in Dongzhi county of Chizhou city, East China's Anhui province. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

HEFEI — Chinese scientists have unearthed dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, the earliest evidence in East Asia of the evolutionary transition toward Homo sapiens, the species to which ...

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 ...

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

A new study challenges long-held beliefs about early human speech, suggesting Homo erectus may have been the first to master language. The researchers present a compelling case built upon anatomical, ...

The mandible ThI-GH-1 from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco, dated to about 773,000 years ago. Credit: Jean-Jacques Hublin et al. / CC BY 4.0 A set of fossils from the Homo sapiens lineage found near ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Dmanisi Hominid Archaeological Site is home to the oldest hominid fossils in Europe, and many studies have tried to sort through the fossils to ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction. An international team rebuilt the skull, revealing a Homo erectus face with ...

Map showing potential migration routes of the human ancestor, Homo erectus, in Africa, Europe and Asia during the early Pleistocene. Key fossils of Homo erectus and the earlier Homo habilis species ...

A 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Gona, Ethiopia reveals new details about the first hominin species to disperse from Africa. Summary: Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a ...

A recent discovery at Lake Turkana in Kenya has scientists thinking there may have been two ancestral human species — or hominins — coexisting together. Thanks to a patch of wet silt that was buried ...