Pressure is growing on Germany and the UK to return to Africa skulls taken as trophies and for discredited racial research more than a century ago, writes the BBC's Damian Zane. A Tanzanian based ...

Researchers from the University of Western Attica successfully reconstructed the skull of the extinct dwarf hippopotamus, ...

So why, within its many hundreds of clauses, does the treaty refer to the decapitated head of an African anti-colonial hero? Chief Mkwawa's skull now sits on a plinth, protected by a glass box ...

A fossilized elephant skull discovered in northern India’s Kashmir Valley offers a rare glimpse into the evolutionary history ...

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Researchers digitally reconstructed the skull of the ancient Hippopotamus creutzburgi, an extinct dwarf hippo of the Greek ...

A piece of skull found in a cave in Greece suggests our human ancestors left Africa far earlier than anthropologists thought. A study published today in the journal Nature reveals that the skull ...

The Berlin museum authority said Wednesday that it was ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former German colony of East Africa after having researched their origin for several years.