A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.Related video above ...

There is something exciting about the fact that we are still discovering pieces of our human ancestry, hidden here on Earth ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

(CNN) — An enigmatic skull recovered from the bottom of a well in northeastern China in 2018 sparked intrigue when it didn’t match any previously known species of prehistoric human. Now, scientists ...

The old man of La Chapelle Discovered in 1908, the skeleton of ""the old man of La Chapelle"" was the first relatively complete skeleton of a Neanderthal individual that scientists had ever found.

3D models of Homo sapiens (top two images) and Homo neanderthalensis (bottom two images) crania for visual comparison. The human model was created from DICOM files of an anonymized volunteer patient ...

The first skeleton discovered at the Skhul burial site belonged to a child between 3 and 5 years old, most likely a girl. Using high-resolution scans of the child’s cranium and jaw, scientists now ...

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