(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new reconstruction (center) of the crushed Yunxian 2 skull (right) found in China is seen with another squashed skull (left) ...

A one-million-year-old skull discovered in central China could push back the origins of modern humans by at least half a million years, according to a new study that’s turning heads across the ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be ...

(CNN) — 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. Scientists ...

The skull’s age, determined by dating the layer of sediment in which it was found and mammal fossils found in the same layer, had led some experts to believe that it belonged to Homo erectus, a more ...

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.Related video above ...