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And one professor's persistence there would pay off in a monumental discovery: a rare, complete skull of a baby ape that could give scientists a glimpse at what our common ancestors looked like.

It has long been believed that our ancestors originated exclusively in Africa - but the skull of an 8.7-million-year-old ape found in Turkey suggests they first appeared in Europe. The skull is 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 ...

However, now experts say a skull of an ape found in Turkey in 2015 could challenge that long-held notion. Camping World CEO defies lawsuits, vows American flags ‘not coming down’ Ranking All ...

It's the best ape skull fossil from this time period ever discovered, and helps fill in the fossil record. Humans as we know ourselves — Homo sapiens — haven't been around for much more than ...

An extremely rare juvenile skull of an extinct ape has now been revealed from China, findings that suggest a very diverse group of apes once lived in Southeast Asia, researchers say. Apes ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The lemon-sized fossil skull of an infant ape nicknamed Alesi that inhabited a Kenyan forest about 13 million years ago is offering a peek at what the long-ago common ...

Conor is a staff writer for Newsweek covering Africa, with a focus on Nigeria, security and conflict. Anthropologists in Kenya have discovered a 13 million year-old baby ape skull that reveals ...

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.