For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their ...

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

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

A fossilized human skull discovered in China could force scientists to rethink the timeline of our origins. The ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

Future research will expand to larger primate samples, investigate diet-wear links in the wild, and apply advanced imaging to see how lesions form. The aim is to refine how we interpret the past while ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

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

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

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