A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The ...

Scientists have reexamined a badly crushed skull discovered back in 1990 in Hubei Province, China — known as Yunxian 2 — and ...

An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the ...

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

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

A crushed million-year-old skull found in China that has been digitally reconstructed reopens a debate in human evolution.

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now ...

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

A new analysis of a million-year-old skull from China challenges the long-held assumption that Homo erectus was our ancestor.

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

The discovery of Yunxian 2 reveals early humans may have coexisted with Neanderthals for nearly 800,000 years, challenging ...

Researchers say the analysis suggests Homo sapiens may have emerged at least half a million years earlier than previously ...