A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be a million years old, but it’s probably closely related to Denisovans. The fossil skull, dubbed Yunxian 2, is one of three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The white skulls are the original, warped fossils, while the grey ones are digitally corrected replicas. (CREDIT: Fudan University ...

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 said Friday. The ...

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. Scientists ...

Skull from Hubei Province is about a million years old Researchers conducted digital reconstruction on skull Study has implications for Homo sapiens lineage timeline Sept 25 (Reuters) - In 1990, an ...

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The skull’s age, determined by dating the layer of sediment in which it was found and mammal fossils found in the same layer, had led some experts to believe that it belonged to Homo erectus, a more ...

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 ...

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 ...