An artist's impression of Graecopithecus freybergi. (Velizar Simeonovski) Around 7 million years ago, a little creature ...

Modern man may have originated in the eastern Mediterranean not Africa according to scientists following the discovery of a 7.2 million year old tooth. For the last century scientists have assumed ...

Graecopithecus lived 7.2 million years ago in the dust-laden savannah of the Athens basin. Credit: Veliza Simeonovski The fossil, unearthed at the Azmaka site, near the Bulgarian town of Chirpan in ...

A team of excavators in Bulgaria has resumed a search for fossils of an ape-like creature which may be the oldest-known direct ancestor of man and whose discovery has challenged the central hypothesis ...

EXPERTS have long believed human lineage split from apes some seven million years ago in Africa, but a recent discovery is set to change this. Scientists have traced the first hominid species to ...

MODERN man may have originated in the eastern Mediterranean not Africa according to scientists following the discovery of a 7.2 million year old tooth. For the last century scientists have assumed ...

A TOOTH fossil found by 5-year-old has helped spawn a controversial theory about humankind’s evolution. And perhaps also, amazingly, by the oldest known human ancestor — which most scientists have ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...