By bno - Taipei Office A human skull unearthed in central China and dated to around 1mn years ago could overturn prevailing assumptions about the origins of Homo sapiens and the timeline of human ...

In a mountainous cave of southeastern China, a pale creature with “sharp” claws moved along the rocky ground. A beam of light cut through the shadows and eventually landed on it. Scientists peered at ...

A skull discovered in China, known as Yunxian 2, could reshape our understanding of human origins. The roughly million-year-old fossil was long classified as Homo erectus, but new analysis suggests it ...

As night settled across southern China, a “slender” 2-foot-long creature moved along the ground near a stream. Its “large” eyes scanned the surrounding foliage, but it wasn’t alone. Passing scientists ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

At the mouth of an underground river in southern China, a cave creature with “visible” internal organs moved “slowly” through the clear water. Something about it caught the attention of passing ...

In a forest of southeastern China, a 1-foot-long creature with “enlarged” teeth moved through the foliage. Its “cryptic appearance” and “secretive habits” kept it largely hidden — until recently. It ...