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

Thirty-five years ago, a badly crushed skull was unearthed from a riverbank in central China. At the time, scientists could not accurately classify the fossil because of how damaged it was. But now, a ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

An ancient skull, warped and damaged by the ravages of time and degradation, may have just altered our understanding of the ...

Scientists have reexamined a badly crushed skull discovered back in 1990 in Hubei Province, China — known as Yunxian 2 — and ...

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull rewrites our understanding of human evolution, scientists have claimed.

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 ...

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

Until now, the earliest known evidence of Homo sapiens dates back 300,000 years in Africa. But the reclassification of Yunxian 2 suggests that three major human lineages – Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, ...