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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin museum authority said Wednesday that it was ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former German colony of East Africa after having researched their origin for ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century. On ...

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 ...