A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

The skull reconstruction points to an Asian lineage that includes Homo longi and the mysterious Denisovans. It essentially ...

In Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, researchers uncovered a remarkably complete fossil of a dome-headed dinosaur that lived 108 million years ago. Nicknamed the “precious one,” this teenage pachycephalosaur is ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

If you’ve ever picked up a shark’s tooth on the beach or seen a prehistoric creature’s skull on display at a natural history ...

New research suggests that Homo floresiensis’ short stature is probably the result of a type of dwarfism that occurs in ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

A fossilized skull discovered in central China and dated to roughly 1 million years old has upended the timeline of human ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient.

Digital reconstructions of a million-year-old skull uncovered in China could potentially rewrite the origin story of early humans.