The team dated the sediment around the bones to estimate their age, calculating them to be around 1.52 million years old. The skull fragments and teeth allowed the researchers to identify the bones as ...
“The hand shows it could form precision grips similar to ours, while also retaining powerful grasping capabilities more like ...
A major fossil discovery about our ancient ancestor has occurred in Kenya. Researchers have found hand and foot bones ...
A Skull at the Crossroads When initially found, Yunxian 2 was presumed to be an early human ancestor like Homo erectus, the lineage that is well known for migrating out of Africa and walking on two ...
A prominent brow ridge with a brain as large as modern humans and Neanderthals — that’s what the archaic human group, the Denisovans, looked like, according to work published this week in Cell and ...
Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...
Scientists who three years ago discovered a nearly complete 7 million-year-old skull in central Africa have dug up additional evidence supporting the conclusion that the skull belonged to the earliest ...
Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...
Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...