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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Skulls housed in a German hospital's collection for a century were stolen from Africa during the colonial period. They have now been genetically matched with living relatives. When you purchase ...

A new study published in the journal Communications Biology has detailed the discovery of an ancient ape skull in Turkey, thus challenging the widely held theory that humans originated in Africa. The ...

King Leopold II reportedly owned the three skulls that date back to the Congo Free State colonial period. A Belgian auction house is canceling the controversial sale of three human skulls from the ...

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 ...

A Belgian auction house is canceling the controversial sale of three human skulls from the country’s colonial-era after sparking criticism on social media. The Brussels Times reports that King Leopold ...