Testing at the University of Georgia allowed the Fayette County Coroner's Office to determine the skull is from approximately ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

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 ...

Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered an ancient skull in China, like no other they've seen before. The 300,000-year-old child skull was first discovered in Hualongdong back in 2019 alongside other fossil ...

Scientists have uncovered the first fossil of a Homo naledi child. This ancestor lived about 250,000 years ago, likely alongside modern humans.

Two new studies suggest the story of dogs and their relationship with humans is older and more complex than once thought.

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans ...

“A reduction in skull size for dogs is first detectable between 9,700–8,700 years ago, while an increase in size variance ...