However, now experts say a skull of an ape found in Turkey in 2015 could challenge that long-held notion.

The site, an eroded limestone cave called Malapa, is in a region already so famous for its ancient human fossils that it ... who studies the evolution of apes and early hominins (a term for ...

But in 1953, the jawbone was found to be that of a modern ape -- orangutan ... a very thick skull about the size of a modern human's and a large, apelike jaw, were part of the same individual ...

The angle at which the child's spine had joined its skull ... of a chimpanzee. The question was not fully resolved for many years. In 1973, when Don Johanson found a surprisingly human-looking ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur archaeologist claimed to have discovered the ‘missing link’ between ape and man. He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown ...

Foramen magnum: A large hole at the underside of the skull where the spinal ... "The last common ancestor of apes and humans," in Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human, Primate, and Mammal ...

Among the great apes, our closest relatives are the chimpanzees and bonobos (Figure 1). The fossil record, along with studies of human and ape DNA, indicate that humans shared a common ancestor ...