The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

Initially discovered in 1933 by a Chinese laborer in Harbin City, China, the skull was once thought to belong to a new human species named Homo longi, or “Dragon Man.” However, recent DNA analysis has ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

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New study uses DNA evidence to challenge claims that humans arrived in Sahul 65,000 years ago, pointing to a later migration ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

Dragon Man Skull Evolutionary mystery Fossilized Denisovans Genetic material Prehistoric human Extinct hominin BEIJING (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) — The "Dragon Man" skull may help unravel an ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...