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 ...

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

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

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

A new dinosaur species from Patagonia, Joaquinraptor casali, steps out of the shadows with a telltale clue clenched in its ...

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

The digital reconstruction of the Yunxian 2 skull, discovered in Hubei in 1990 and dated between 940,000 and 1.1 million years ago, constitutes an ...