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The evolutionary history of the equid family, a fundamental pillar in the study of mammal paleontology that for decades has ...

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

She used her global fame to draw attention to the plight of dwindling chimpanzee populations and, more broadly, to the perils ...

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 even more ancient.

In a ground-breaking discovery nestled in the mountains of the Caucasus, archaeologists have unearthed a partial jawbone of Homo erectus in Georgia, which ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted ...

Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests.

A human skull believed to be older than a million years could alter our understanding of human evolution. Leading scientists have made a eureka breakthrough after analysing an ancient skull, known as ...

A newly reconstructed 1-million-year-old Chinese skull may hold surprising insights into human evolution, challenging ...

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

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...