A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought, and in Asia, not Africa, a study said Friday.

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...

A digitally restored, million-year-old skull from China is reshaping ideas about human evolution. In the lab, a replica of the reconstruction sits between the original fossil and another, even more ...

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 museum, you may have noticed one characteristic that all these fossilized ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is the largest and most intact stegosaurus fossil ever unearthed. In July 2024, ...

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 jaws: the bone of an ancient crocodile relative. The animal belonged to the ...

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

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 epistemic event that goes beyond the merely ...