Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

Multiple "Homo" lineages existed during the Middle Pleistocene period, each of which had diverse physical forms, according to the paper. Much of what is known about human evolution and early hominins ...

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would have dried out and preserved the bodies.

A deformed human skull discovered over thirty years ago in central China is now upending what researchers believed they ...

A fossilized skull unearthed in China's Hubei Province from around a million years ago could reshape understanding of human evolution. Identified as part of a hominin lineage close to Homo sapiens, it ...

Southeast Asian groups mummified bodies over smoky fires before burying them as early as 12,000 years ago, long before Egyptians began making mummies.

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