A 13-million-year-old skull now offers insights into ape development at that time. See Article The Earth in the Miocene epoch (23–5.3 million years ago) was a planet of the apes, ...

The most complete extinct-ape skull ever found reveals what the last common ancestor of all living apes and humans might have looked like, according to a new study. The 13-million-year-old infant ...

APE CHILD An infant ape’s nearly complete skull, found in Kenya, dates to about 13 million years ago. Researchers suspect the youngster represents an ape group close to the origin of living apes ...

The unerupted adult teeth inside the infant ape’s skull also indicate that the specimen belonged to a new species, Nyanzapithecus alesi.The species name is taken from the Turkana word for ancestor ...

Alesi's teeth showed that the infant skull hadn't just belonged to just any ape, but one of a previously undiscovered species, now named Nyanzapithecus alesi. Up until then, scientists hadn't been ...

Front and side views of the skull of Saadanius hijazensis, an early primate that has ape and monkey characteristics. Credit: Zalmout, Is S. et al, Nature ...

Skull of 8.7-million-year-old ape found in Turkey suggests our ancestors evolved in Europe and NOT Africa, study claims A skull found in Turkey could upheave our understanding of human origins ...

An extremely rare juvenile skull of an extinct ape has now been revealed from China, findings that suggest a very diverse group of apes once lived in Southeast Asia, researchers say.

12-million-year-old ape skull bares its fangs in virtual reconstruction. Now extinct, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus could be one of the earliest known members of the great ape and human family.

Scientists Reconstruct 12-Million-Year-Old Ape Skull The damaged cranium of a Pierolapithecus has been put together virtually and compared with hominids past and present.

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

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