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

In the summer of 2021, a team of five Chinese researchers stirred up some controversy by suggesting that an unusual skull ...

Two studies published on Wednesday in the journals Science and Cell presented molecular evidence confirming that the ...

The research team conducted independent palaeoproteomic analyses and ancient DNA experiments on the skull and its dental ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...

Molecular sleuthing has tied the more‑than‑146,000‑year‑old Harbin cranium, known as "Dragon Man," to this hidden branch of humanity.

Retrieving ancient DNA from the Harbin skull proved difficult, as neither the teeth nor the temporal bones retained any genetic material. However, the team broke new ground by extracting DNA from ...

A 146,000-year-old skull, nicknamed thedragon man, has long intrigued scientists. Discovered in the 1930s in Harbin, China, ...

When a Sitka deer hunter is mauled by a brown bear, he must fight to survive — and find his way out of the woods.

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

The Harbin skull confirms Denisovan ancestry and expands their known range using protein and DNA analysis from dental calculus. What did Denisovans look like, despite their known genetic contributions ...