In 2024, a group of paleontologists journeyed into the dry, sandy desert of northern Egypt in search of fossils in a valley ...

The fossil find suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa rather than what was ...

Human evolution is a long and winding tale that goes back millions of years, but one aspect of our anatomy shaped up quickly compared to other mammals: our large brains and flat faces. As these ...

The ancestor of apes was long thought to come from East Africa, but newly discovered fossils in Egypt may prompt a rethink.

Fossil jaw remains found in Egypt suggest that the earliest modern apes evolved in North Africa, not in East Africa where ...

New fossils suggest early apes originated in Africa, strengthening evidence that all modern apes trace their roots to the ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

A jaw bone discovered in Egypt is changing the way scientists think about the origins of the ape family tree. The specimen, ...

A new species of ancient primate challenges what we think we know about where human ancestors diverged from monkeys.

In a study published in Science, an international research team from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center ...

Scientists at the University of Vienna, Austria, have screened great ape specimens obtained from natural history museums to identify DNA viruses. This groundbreaking study provides unique insights ...

Reconstruction of the locomotor behavior and paleoenvironment of Lufengpithecus. Credit: Xiaocong Guo; image courtesy of Xijun Ni, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese ...