A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

Exciting new research reveals a fascinating connection between the ancient Dragon Man skull, unearthed in China, and the ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing matter, methane fuels sea spiders’ diet, and more.

The nearly complete skull did not match any previously known species of prehistoric human. But two new studies — which researchers say are among the biggest paleoanthropology papers of the year — ...

Hundreds of Neanderthal fossils give us a good idea of their appearance, lives and relationships, but so little is known about Denisovans that they still don’t have an official scientific name ...

THE face of humans’ most mysterious ancestor has finally been uncovered after 217,000 years. The discovery proves that the ‘Dragon Man’ of China is indeed a Denisovan, a long lost… ...

So while we don’t know for sure how Homo erectus conceptualized numbers, it’s clear that the species was capable of complex geometric modeling and possessed the cognitive apparatus necessary ...

Holotype cranium of Homo longi, Dragon Man. Credit: Fu et al. (2025) / CC BY 4.0 Scientists have confirmed that the ancient Dragon Man skull, unearthed in Harbin, China, nearly a century ago, belongs ...