“Out of Africa” is the phrase commonly used to explain the diaspora of humanity, suggesting that our species first evolved there before spreading all over the globe. However, now experts say a ...

Human History Scientists Reconstruct 12-Million-Year-Old Ape Skull The damaged cranium of a Pierolapithecus has been put together virtually and compared with hominids past and present.

12-million-year-old ape skull bares its fangs in virtual reconstruction Now extinct, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus could be one of the earliest known members of the great ape and human family.

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

Researchers agreed she was from a new species of human-like ape that they named Australopithecus afarensis, meaning “southern ape from Afar.” ...

In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.

Taungs "man-like ape" stirs fury. Raymond Dart announces that a prehistoric "man-like ape" has been found in a limestone quarry at Taungs, South Africa. The fossils are found along with the skull ...

A study comparing fossil skulls and great ape anatomy reveals how temporal lobes evolved in response to social complexity and environmental shifts. Fossil Homo sapiens had smaller temporal lobes ...

In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...

When compared to Piltdown, Australopithecus’s combination of ape and human-like features turned the accepted wisdom on its head.