A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

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 said Friday. The ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, researchers said. A cranium dubbed Yunxian 2 was found in the Yunxian region of ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater lake ...