Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a ...

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

The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were discovered ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

When researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull unearthed in China, they made a surprising discovery, revealing features that could potentially alter the story of our beginnings. Researchers ...

A Skull at the Crossroads When initially found, Yunxian 2 was presumed to be an early human ancestor like Homo erectus, the lineage that is well known for migrating out of Africa and walking on two ...

The finding challenges the traditional view, based on studies of ancient DNA, that the three species began to diverge ... This would place the origins of all these groups firmly in the time of Homo ...

A fossil cranium, which is around 1 million years old and was initially believed to belong to Homo erectus, is now thought to be part of the Asian longi clade, closely linked to the Denisovans, which ...

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 found. The ...