A groundbreaking digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull in China suggests humans may have emerged and co-existed hundreds of thousands of years earlier than scientists previously believed.

What did researchers find? A 1.6-to-1.5-million-year-old skull from Ethiopia combines features from two different stages of ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they understood about our origins. The fossil, named Yunxian 2, was extracted from ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...