‘Perfectly preserved’ 40-foot specimen is actually a sculpture placed on a beach known for fossils to promote HBO’s third season of ‘Game of Thrones.’ The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site along ...

The Harbin cranium, known as Dragon Man, was recovered in China after being hidden for decades and later studied as the ...

A skull, unearthed nearly a century ago, has led to new revelations in the study of human evolution. Known as “Dragon Man,” the fossil has now been identified as belonging to the Denisovans — a ...

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 ...

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.

Since their discovery in 2010, Denisovans have captured the attention of scientists and the general public. One of the biggest questions about this ancient group has been what they looked like, and ...

Fossil hunters were stunned today (July 15) with the surprise of a giant dragon skull lodged in the sand of Charmouth beach. It appeared to have washed up on Dorset's Jurassic Coast, a fitting ...

Scientists on Friday announced that a massive fossilized skull that is at least 140,000 years old is a new species of ancient human, a finding that could potentially change scientists’ view of how — ...