Archaeologists have spent 60 years trying to figure out the origin story of a 300,000-year-old skull, and it seems a team of ...

The story of human evolution is far messier and less straightforward than most people think, protagonized by a procession of misfits that go against everything we think we know about how our ancestors ...

The exact ties between archaic human lines and Homo sapiens may remain unknown, but a recent effort to analyze ancient Chinese skulls potentially just brought those links closer together.

But its limbs, skull cap, and recessed chin "seem to reflect more primitive traits," Xiujie Wu, a paleontologist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences wrote in an analysis of the bones published ...

In September, Chinese researchers announced that they had found an ancient human skull earlier in the year. It was discovered about a dozen miles outside of Yunyang (formerly known as Yunxian) in ...

"I’ve held a lot of other human skulls and fossils, but never like this," says paleoanthropologist Xijun Ni of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who is an author of all three studies. Based on ...

Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ... of the flattened fossilized skull of a 120-million-year-old bird fossil ...