Berkeley researchers have discovered the oldest-known skulls of modern humans, 160,000-year-old Ethiopian fossils from the dawn of humanity that strongly support the theory that modern humans evolved ...

Not all scientists are convinced by the theory, however. The discovery of an ancient ape skull may challenge the long-held belief that the ancestors of apes and humans came from Africa, a ...

For decades, the story seemed settled: one early human species left Africa and spread across the world. But a new study ...

German invaders pillaged thousands of skulls from East African colonies and brought them back. Using DNA analysis, a museum has managed to find relat of three of the skulls. This finding is a "small ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

The extinct African crocodile species Crocodylus checchiai may be closely related to American crocodile species alive today, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. The findings suggest ...

Scientists are struggling to understand how the 250,000-year-old fossil ended up in such a remote, hard-to-reach part of the cave system. Reading time 4 minutes It’s tiny, incomplete, and undeniably ...

In what may be the most startling fossil find in decades, scientists in central Africa say they have unearthed the oldest trace of a pre-human ancestor - a remarkably intact skull of an apelike ...

Marina Elliott is a researcher in Physical and Biological Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. The Conversation Africa's Natasha Joseph spoke with Dr. Marina Elliott, lead author of the paper ...

The discovery of a bizarre skull three years ago in Chad is leading scientists to believe the skull may have belonged to the common ancestor of all hominids. The findings of the French scientist who ...

An ape skull found in Turkey may challenge the belief that human and ape ancestors came from Africa. The discovery suggests that hominins may have first evolved in Europe. Not all scientists are ...