Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humanity's closest relatives, both extinct, are the Neanderthals and the Denisovans. The second group, who lived alongside both ...

A large fossilized skull discovered in China in 1933 may be a new species of ancient human, scientists said on Friday. The Harbin cranium dates to at least 146,000 years old and a group of ...

The story of our species may run through a wartime construction project back to the wild and woolly steppes of Asia where Dragon people once roamed. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011.

A 146,000-year-old skull, nicknamed thedragon man, has long intrigued scientists. Discovered in the 1930s in Harbin, China, the skull was initially believed to represent a new, elusive species of ...

The strange skull appeared soon after the Japanese invaded northeast China in the early 1930s. A team of locals was raising a bridge near Harbin, a city in China’s northernmost province, when one of ...