A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.
When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...
For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their ...
The Cairo Fossil Forest is the second oldest in the world. These forests mark a turning point in Earth's history because they ...
In addition to the Java Man fossil, the Netherlands will also return approximately 28,000 fossils or specimens from Dubois's ...
A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first ...
The Netherlands will give back the "Java Man" fossils that were taken "against the will of the people" from colonial ...