The fossils, which date back more than 7 million years, belonged to an ape-like creature named Graecopithecus freybergi, researchers hypothesized in two new papers.

EVERYTHING we might know about the history of human evolution could be wrong, with scientists postulating that Africa may not be the birthplace of man.

Anadoluvius and other fossil apes from nearby Greece (Ouranopithecus) and Bulgaria (Graecopithecus) form a group that come closest in many details of anatomy and ecology to the earliest known ...

The male Graecopithecus weighed around 40kg, as much as a female chimpanzee today, with massive and powerful jaws capable of chewing tree bark and chestnuts, Spassov said. "We can also assume that it ...

Missing link may have been European, not African, ancient fossils suggest Remnants of an ape-like creature place the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans in the Mediterranean, not East ...

The controversial claim is based on the dental characteristics of the Graecopithecus fossils, according to lead researcher Professor Madelaine Bohme. "While great apes typically have two or three ...

EVERYTHING we might know about the history of human evolution could be wrong, with scientists postulating that Africa may not be the birthplace of man.

I personally don’t think that the descendants of Graecopithecus die out, they may have spread to Africa later,” she said. “The split of chimps and humans was a single event.

New Research Suggests Human-Like Footprints in Crete Date to 6.05 Million Years Ago The findings could upend scientists’ understanding of human evolution—but the paper has proven controversial ...