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 ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

DNA and protein analysis of a 146,000-year-old skull shows for the first time what the face of this species, which occupied much of Asia and left its genes in modern humans, was like ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

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The findings include two skull fragments of Homo erectus, along with a total of 6,372 fossils representing 36 vertebrate species. Music by Adrian von Ziegler. #HumanEvolution #NewDiscoveries ...

A 140,000-year-old human ancestor's skull discovered underwater may reveal a lost world Researchers discovered a fossilised Homo erectus skull in Indonesia. It was hidden by heavy silt in the ...

The Homo erectus fossil was discovered in 2011 due to a large construction project in the Madura Strait. However, it wasn't until this month that scientists published the findings in the journal ...

Homo erectus is thought to be the first human species to have used fire around 1 million years ago. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.

Skull fragments and other fossil remains emerged from among more than 6,000 animal fossils found in some 177 million cubic feet of sand and sandstones that were dredged up in 2014–15 during ...