Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nearly complete cranium recovered from a well in Harbin, China, dates to at least 146,000 years ago. - Hebei GEO University An ...

It's the end of a nearly 100-year-old mystery. Using DNA-analysis, scientists have identified an ancient human relative nicknamed "Dragon Man", new research showed. It all started with a ...

For decades, the story of human evolution has been like a sprawling family tree with many missing branches. We've known about Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans, but fossil records constantly ...

(CNN) — An enigmatic skull recovered from the bottom of a well in northeastern China in 2018 sparked intrigue when it didn’t match any previously known species of prehistoric human. Now, scientists ...

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