Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

A digitally reconstructed skull discovered in China has scientists questioning long-held beliefs about the timeline of human ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and ...

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...

Scientists have digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis potentially shakes up ...

The team analyzed DNA from about 100 trees per species, searching for genetic clues about the history and future of each ...

A new study claims that Yunxian-2, a human skull found decades ago in China, suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began ...

Conifers use resin to protect themselves against pests. This resin contains diterpenes, which are defensive substances. Some of these ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

A new study has observed that chimpanzees regularly eat fermented fruit together, suggesting that alcohol consumption is more ...

Until Homo floresiensis was discovered, scientists assumed that the evolution of the human lineage was defined by bigger and ...