7.24 million year old upper premolar of Graecopithecus from Bulgaria. Wolfgang Gerber, University of Tübingen. This raises the possibility that the fossils represent the oldest hominin ever ...

A Graecopithecus lower jaw, found in Athens with most teeth still in their sockets, dates to around 7.175 million years ago, a group led by Tübingen geoscientist Madelaine Böhme reports May 22 ...

Graecopithecus is a mysterious species because its fossils are so sparse. It was roughly the size of a female chimp and lived in a dry mixed woodland-grassland environment, ...

The discovery of the creature, named Graecopithecus freybergi, and nicknameded ‘El Graeco' by scientists, proves our ancestors were already starting to evolve in Europe 200,000 years before the ...

Graecopithecus seems to be different from any other ancient ape found in Europe The last common ancestor we shared with chimps seems to have lived in the eastern Mediterranean – not in East ...

The researchers base their arguments on analysis of two Graecopithecus freybergi ape fossils, a lower jaw found in Greece and an upper premolar found in Bulgaria, dating back 7.24 and 7.175 ...

Furthermore, Graecopithecus is several hundred thousand years older than the oldest potential pre-human from Africa, the six to seven million year old Sahelanthropus from Chad.

Ancient tooth fossils found in Europe may represent a new chapter in the human origin story. The fossils, which date back more than 7 million years, belonged to an ape-like creature named ...

The tooth could be proof that modern man came from Europe Credit: PA:Press Association. The creature, known as Graecopithecus freybergi and nicknamed "El Graeco", may be the oldest-known member of ...

“In this interpretation, an early member of the human lineage, Graecopithecus, lived in Europe at 7.2 million years ago, indicating that humans were not confined to Africa at this time and may ...

“I really appreciate having a detailed analysis of the Graecopithecus jaw—the only fossil of its genus so far,” Rick Potts, head of the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program tells Guarino.

But the Graecopithecus-- nicknamed "El Graeco" -- may be even older, according to an international team of researchers. The Bulgarian premolar dates back some 7.24 million years ago, ...