A groundbreaking study has resolved the mystery surrounding the “Dragon Man” skull, one of the most significant fossil ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human skull to Denisovan DNA. That skull, called the Harbin cranium, is over 146,000 ...

The Harbin skull confirms Denisovan ancestry and expands their known range using protein and DNA analysis from dental calculus. What did Denisovans look like, despite their known genetic contributions ...

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

This collection of viewable hominin fossil 3D models was produced by the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program by 3D scanning casts and other replicas which are now on display in the Hall of Human ...

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

The Sundaland Hominin Fossil Site Discovery in Indonesia has revealed what could be the first physical evidence of a lost prehistoric world. Among the findings are a 140,000-year-old Homo erectus ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A few months later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus ...

Maba 1 also suffered trauma before death, but the specific cause of the trauma remains unknown.