“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 ...

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 ...

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 said ...

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.

The researchers used sensitive 3D X-ray imaging to look inside the skull, and check out the brain cavity, inner ears and the ape’s yet to emerge adult teeth. The skull resembles a baby gibbon’s.

The most unexpected discovery, however, was the skull of a Barbary ape dated to 390 – 20 B.C. through carbon testing. The Barbary ape is a species of Old World monkey, unique to North Africa and ...

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.