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 ...

An artist's impression of Graecopithecus freybergi. (Velizar Simeonovski) Around 7 million years ago, a little creature ...

Modern man may have originated in the eastern Mediterranean not Africa according to scientists following the discovery of a 7.2 million year old tooth. For the last century scientists have assumed ...

Graecopithecus lived 7.2 million years ago in the dust-laden savannah of the Athens basin. Credit: Veliza Simeonovski The fossil, unearthed at the Azmaka site, near the Bulgarian town of Chirpan in ...

EXPERTS have long believed human lineage split from apes some seven million years ago in Africa, but a recent discovery is set to change this. Scientists have traced the first hominid species to ...

A team of excavators in Bulgaria has resumed a search for fossils of an ape-like creature which may be the oldest-known direct ancestor of man and whose discovery has challenged the central hypothesis ...

MODERN man may have originated in the eastern Mediterranean not Africa according to scientists following the discovery of a 7.2 million year old tooth. For the last century scientists have assumed ...

The birthplace of modern man may have been the eastern Mediterranean, rather than Africa, according to scientists studying newly discovered ancient fossils of a tooth and lower jawbone. The remnants, ...