According to new CT scans and models, parts of the 140,000-year-old skull resemble those of modern humans, while the jaw appears to be more similar to those of our extinct relatives ...

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Researchers uncovered the nearly complete skull of an ancient apex predator that prowled North Africa roughly 30 million years ago.

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A skull found in China could re-write our entire understanding of human evolution. That's according to scientists who have examined the important, ancient head and say that it proves the existing ...

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A man found a human skull in bucket in the back of a historic Georgia cemetery. An anthropologist says it closely resembles an African ritual.

The skull "appeared to have all the components of an improvised explosive device," according to the Transportation Security Administration.

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

A controversial study claims that an ancient ape skull found in Turkey proves hominins evolved in western and central Europe and spent over five million years there before migrating to Africa.