African Skull Points to Common Ancestry for All Hominids The discovery of a bizarre skull three years ago in Chad is leading scientists to believe the skull may have belonged to the common ...

The specimen dating back to the late middle Pleistocene doesn’t look like other skulls that have been found from this time period, and could possibly point to a previously unknown human species.

Skull find points to single, evolving human species Revolutionary discovery of skull 1.8 million years old, most complete yet seen, suggests man is one species with individual differences Reading ...

A remarkably complete, roughly 1.8-million-year-old fossil skull with a surprising set of features adds key evidence to the controversial idea that early members of the Homo genus evolved as one ...

Palaeontologists have unearthed the skull of a ferocious marine predator, an ancient ancestor of modern-day whales, which once lived in a prehistoric ocean that covered part of what is now Peru.

This 300,000-year-old skull found in China has traits of both humans and other more distantly-related hominids, implying a new branch on the human evolutionary tree could have lived there.

Workers toiled for a week to cut a block out of the Earth. At one point, a heavy duty demolition hammer broke the skull into pieces. It took two and a half years to painstakingly extract the skull ...

LIMA, Peru — Paleontologists have unearthed the skull of a ferocious marine predator, an ancient ancestor of modern-day whales, which once lived in a prehistoric ocean that covered part of what ...