A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

A skull that was on sale in a thrift store as a Halloween decoration turned out to be the real deal, after an anthropologist recognised it as belonging to a human. The anthropologist, who happened to ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older than previously believed.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The white skulls are the original, warped fossils, while the grey ones are digitally corrected replicas. (CREDIT: Fudan University ...

AUSTIN, TX (CNN/KVUE) -- An unusual discovery by an employee at a north Austin Goodwill grabbed the Austin Police Department's attention. APD is looking for a person who may have donated a human skull ...

A fossilized skull discovered more than six decades ago in a cave in northern Greece is shedding new light on ancient human history. According to new research published in the Journal of Human ...

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In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...