A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

A fossilized skull discovered in central China and dated to roughly 1 million years old has upended the timeline of human ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient.

A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it's probably closely ...

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further evidence ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

The Denisovans, together with the Neanderthals, are the closest extinct relatives of modern humans. It wasn't until 2010 that scientists announced that the Denisovans existed, so much about them ...

Categorising the Denisovans as a distinct species would allow us to more comprehensively trace our own evolutionary development ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...