Nearby Curator Rick Potts stands at a display case that holds 76 hominid skull replicas, among the oldest known from six continents. He says all of the species are gone. "Their ways of life are ...

He estimated the facial features of the ancient hominid using the eye-to-socket ... He used a plastic replica of the Harbin skull, commissioned by National Geographic, to begin making his ...

He decided the fossils represented an extinct hominid species he called Homo rhodesiensis (Zambia was once part of the British colony Northern Rhodesia). Today, the Kabwe 1 skull, dating to ...

stare and sneer beside replicas of the skulls they are based on. The corridor’s faces include the famous 3.2-million-year-old apelike hominid Lucy and early Homo sapiens. To make the ...

In a remarkable evolutionary windfall, fossil hunters have discovered neatly fitting halves of a nearly complete, 3.8-million-year-old hominid skull. This unexpected specimen shines some light on ...

In Ethiopia, they found hominid skull, jaw, and arm bones plus a few teeth that dated back to 4.4 million years ago. That would make these the oldest hominid ancestors yet identified, and the most ...

From the back, the skull “looks like a chimpanzee, whereas from the front it could pass for a 1.75 million year old advanced australopithicine” says Bernard Wood of the George Washington ...

Given what Berger knew of the area, he suspected there was an ancient hominid skull down there waiting to be unearthed, maybe more. Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content ...

The world's first completely preserved adult hominid skull from the early Pleistocene era looks surprisingly different from other skulls of the same era, yielding a remarkable insight: Man’s ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Scientists in northeastern Ethiopia said Saturday that they had discovered the skull of a small human ... erectus and modern man. The hominid cranium — found in two ...

It wasn’t until July 1959 that Leakey’s wife, Mary, while working in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, found a hominid bone. It was a skull, but not exactly the skull Leakey’s team had been ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an almost intact hominid skull in Ethiopia that could help to bridge the gap between Homo erectus and modern man. The cranium belonging to one of man's forefathers is ...