Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously ...

(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 ...

Three rare discoveries — the earliest human Cryptosporidium infection in Roman Bulgaria, a 500-million-year-old tunicate ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

HUBEI, China — 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.

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...