A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

A crushed ancient skull may hold clues to the origins of ancient humans. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – A human skull that was found at Pine Oaks Golf Course last week remains under the investigation of the Johnson City Police Department (JCPD). According to the JCPD, the ...

A roughly 1-million-year-old Chinese hominid skull has long vexed efforts to nail down its evolutionary identity. Fossil comparisons using a new digital reconstruction of this specimen, dubbed the ...

Modern human faces are surprisingly delicate compared with the jutting jaws and broad noses of our closest extinct cousins.

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia, not Africa, a study found. The ...

FLUSHING, Queens (WABC) -- A police investigation is underway after a human skull, and other skeletal remains were discovered in a parking lot in Queens on Monday. A city survey crew was working along ...