However, now experts say a skull of an ape found in Turkey in 2015 could challenge that long-held notion.

The latest documentary from Rodney Ascher ('Room 237,' 'A Glitch in the Matrix') revisits the harrowing life of locked-in ...

That’s why the hip, thigh, and shinbone found at Swartkrans Cave – the first place P. robustus and Homo fossils were found ...

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In addition, domestication brings morphological changes to the skulls of adults – they resemble the young more with larger wider ... We are not the same folks who marched out of Africa. Our genes have ...

On a night in 1997, Benjamin Dauda killed a gorilla for the first time. Shrouding his lanky frame in dark fog, he stalked a ...

In the fossil-rich sands of the Faiyum Oasis in Egypt, archaeologists have uncovered one of the most complete skulls ever found ... the time across what is now Africa and Arabia, and would have ...

How strong are gorillas? Much of a gorilla’s strength can be attributed to its large body size. Wild male gorillas weigh between 300 and 500 pounds on average, and females weigh between 150 and 250 ...

“Finding a complete, three-dimensional skull is like a dream for a paleontologist,” Al-Ashqar says. Fossils similar to Bastetodon had been found in Africa before, and previous generations of ...

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, ...