A partial skull found in South Africa suggests Homo erectus—an ancestral human species—appeared 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. The new ...

Hershkovitz and his colleagues said the skull fragment may well be the missing piece of a larger puzzle that shows how Neanderthals and modern humans may have mixed their genes.

The extinct African crocodile species Crocodylus checchiai may be closely related to American crocodile species alive today, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. The findings ...

A mysterious but well-preserved hominid skull found nearly a century ago comes from a population that lived in Africa around 300,000 years ago, as the earliest Homo sapiens were evolving, a new ...

Variety is the flavour this Ramzan season. Right from different kinds of dates to mouth-watering food items to perfumes to skull caps — varieties of all categories have flooded the market ...

A German museum says it is ready to return the human skulls from East Africa, which were removed under German colonial rule.

A newly discovered 1.8 million-year-old skull offers evidence that humanity's early ancestors emerged from Africa as a single adventurous species, not several, as believed.

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 ...