The skull, called Yunxian 2, appears to be that of a man possibly 30 to 40 years old, according to paleoanthropologist Xijun ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

In a world-first, researchers from the Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST ...

A fossilised human skull unearthed in China and dated to around one million years ago may radically change what we know about ...

The effectiveness of camouflage or warning colors for insect defense depends on conditions such as light levels and how many predators are around.

Digital reconstruction of a partially crushed skull suggests new insight into Homo sapiens’ evolutionary relationship to Denisovans and Neandertals.

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This ...

A nearly $3M grant is funding this university’s push into “recyclofacturing.” Here's what that means for your recycled scrap ...

A groundbreaking new study suggests that Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over one million years ago - pushing back our species’ origins by some 400,000 years compared with genetic estimates.

Two Indian American scientists — Arvind Murugan and Saad Bhamla — have been named Schmidt Polymaths with six other global ...