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An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

HUBEI, China — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.

In 1998, paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke and his research team discovered the skull of a previously unknown human ancestor in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves. Thought to be between 3 million and 1 ...

Using cutting-edge DNA analysis, scientists have uncovered the true identity of an ancient human relative nicknamed the "Dragon Man." The mystery began with a giant, human-like skull discovered by a ...

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 ...