Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

In his recently published book Archaeology of Paleolithic Age, Li wrote about his finds such as ancient human skull fossils. His blocks of text, however, have been interspersed with small photos.

Ancient protein analysis revealed that the oldest hominin fossil found in Taiwan belonged to a male Denisovan. Penghu 1, a ...

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens. “Denisovan fossils are very scarce,” with ...

In 2003, researchers excavating a limestone cave on the remote Indonesian island of Flores made an extraordinary discovery: the 18,000-year-old bones of a woman whose skull was less than one-third ...

He added that the fossil is the only complete human skull fossil found in South China that allows for precise stratigraphy and reliable dating. "The fossil has value for studies on early human ...

A fossil of the early human's skull was discovered at the Yahuai Cave site on a hill in Bolang Village of Guangxi's Longan County. The site was excavated between 2015 and 2018. "The Yahuai Cave ...

Scientists have reconstructed the face of a prehistoric human who lived about 16,000 years ago, using a well-preserved skull found in a cave in southern China. The project gives a rare glimpse into ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.