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

Explore the intriguing tale of the Piltdown Man, archaeology's greatest hoax, and its lasting impact on scientific discovery.

Scientists have unveiled a previously unknown tyrannosaur species that fundamentally changes our understanding of how the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex evolved. The newly identified dinosaur, named ...

Fossil antelope teeth reveal stable, mixed habitats in the Cradle.Sudden woodland-to-grassland shift 1.7M yrs ago is ...

In 2002, a research team discovered one of the oldest human ancestors ever, called Sahelanthropus. For over twenty years, ...

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

Fossils of hands and feet belonging to an extinct human relative that lived about 1.52 million years ago suggests they were ...

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

Drinking from skulls might not be limited to lurid serial killer movies. Archaeologists have exhumed skull cups and skeleton ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

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