Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new fossil discovery of Paranthropus robustus, an early human ancestor, reveals it was a habitual upright walker, similar to modern humans. The individual was ...

Wu and Bae argue this misses the point. These fossils, they say, belong to a distinct group with its own role in the human family tree. The Juluren lived between 300,000 and 50,000 years ago.

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

When you think of dinosaurs, you might imagine towering predators or gentle giants roaming prehistoric landscapes. But what ...

Before the ‘Out of Africa’ migration that led humans into Eurasia and beyond, new research shows that humans expanded their ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we ...

Apes lived in this changing environment, which helped shape their evolution.Their behavior and diet were influenced by the ...

Both ancient human species showed signs of simultaneously using their hands to move around – such as by climbing trees – as well as to grasp and manipulate objects, a requirement to being able to make ...