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 ...

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 ...

Ancient skull more ape than human? Toumai skull from Chad is between 6 million and 7 million years old Story Tools. EXTRA INFORMATION. View close-up images of the ancient skull .

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.

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.) ...

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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 ...

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 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.

Ugandan and French scientists have discovered a fossil of a skull of a tree-climbing ape from about 20 million years ago in Uganda's Karamoja region, the team said Tuesday.