One possible member of the new species H. juluensis isn’t a newcomer to science by any stretch. Denisovians—first identified ...

Scientists have identified evidence of a new ancient human species, Homo juluensis, from fossils in East Asia.

A new study determined that these footprints actually contain evidence of two distinct human species: Homo erectus and ...

From China’s latest submarine detection advance to top scientists leaving West, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent ...

In 2018, paleoanthropologists were given a fossil from northeastern China that turned out to be an extinct species of archaic ...

An alternative healer has been jailed for 10 years for the manslaughter of a 71-year-old diabetic woman who stopped taking ...

Understanding how early Homo sapiens ventured into Eurasia offers key insights into human evolution, the extinction of ...

New Model Can Help Understand Coexistence in Nature Nov. 18, 2024 — Different species of seabirds can coexist on small, isolated islands despite eating the same kind of fish. A researcher has ...

For many of us, it may be hard to imagine that if we went back far enough in time—more than 55 million years, when the first primates are thought to have lived—that our great-a-million-times ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...