A 146,000-year-old skull recovered near Harbin, China, by scientists decades ago has now been found to belong to the Denisovans, an extinct relation to modern humans who lived in Siberia and East Asia ...

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 ...

New 3D analysis of a German skull clears up decades of confusion, placing this human firmly in the modern family tree.

Recent fossil finds in Africa are revealing a more intricate picture of human evolution than the straight-line model many imagine. From unique walking adaptations to overlapping species and ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years ...

Researchers clarify the Hahnöfersand bone's origins, revealing it as a modern human fossil from the Mesolithic period.

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 ...

A skull fragment discovered over fifty years ago on the banks of the Elbe River in Germany has finally yielded its secrets. Long considered by some researchers to be a rare Neanderthal-modern human ...

A reanalysis of a one-million-year-old human skull found in China is challenging the established timeline of human evolution, and suggests a new branch of the human family tree, as well as a possible ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the crushed skull labelled Yunxian 2, which has features that are closer to species thought to have existed ...