Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

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

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

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

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the first large-brained humans. That's because it dated back about a million ...

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

Discoveries about ancient human ancestors always make us curious and also give a glimpse into our deep past. Sometimes, fossils found in caves or rock formations also change what we know about human ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery over the age of a landmark skull found in 1921 in Zambia – the first fossil of an extinct human species discovered in Africa – in ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.