A 13-million-year-old infant’s skull, discovered in Africa in 2014, comes from a new species of ape that may not be far removed from the common ancestor of living apes and humans. The tiny find ...

A team of scientists from Spain and the United States reconstructed the skull of an extinct great ape species from a set of well-preserved, but damaged skeletal remains. The bones belonged to ...

We know little about the common ancestors that we and other apes had more than ten million years ago. A new 13 million-year-old skull may shed light on them.

The most complete extinct-ape skull ever found reveals what the last common ancestor of all living apes and humans might have looked like, according to a new study. The 13-million-year-old infant ...

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.

A 13-million-year-old skull now offers insights into ape development at that time. See Article The Earth in the Miocene epoch (23–5.3 million years ago) was a planet of the apes, with more than ...

A controversial study claims that an ancient ape skull found in Turkey proves hominins evolved in western and central Europe and spent over five million years there before migrating to Africa.

An extremely rare juvenile skull of an extinct ape that lived some 6 million years ago has now been revealed from China. (Image credit: Jay Kelley.) ...

THE skull of an infant ape buried by a volcano 13 million years ago has preserved intriguing clues about the ancestor humans shared with apes — including a likely African origin, scientists say.

An ape skull found in a Chinese tomb might belong to a previously unknown gibbon — one that was driven to extinction within the past two millennia, researchers report on 21 June in Science 1.

The newly announced discovery of an ancient skull from Kenya shows what an ancestor of apes and humans may have looked like. It's the best ape skull fossil from this time period ever discovered ...