The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis took two big rocks containing a dinosaur skull to the hospital for a CT scan. The ...

Two new studies published in Science and Cell have shed light on a mysterious skull found in China, and in the process have ...

Researchers at the Chega Sofla cemetery, which dates back to the fifth millennium B.C ., found the remains of a young woman, whose skull had cranial bandaging, which changes the morphology of the ...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery about the Dragon Man skull which had been puzzling them since it was found in 2018 ...

Skulls are typically the best type of fossilized remains to understand the appearance or form of an extinct hominin species.

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

Hidden for 80+ years, the Harbin skull has finally been identified as Denisovan using DNA and protein analysis.