Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The Netherlands said it would give back a major fossil collection to Indonesia, granting its former colony's ...

The Netherlands will give back the "Java Man" fossils that were taken "against the will of the people" from colonial Indonesia. The fossils were the first to show links between apes and humans.The ...

The two most ancient fossil humans known are Sinanthropus pekinensis, the old man of China, and Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape man of Java. Their ages have been variously put at 400,000 to 1,000,000 ...

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The Netherlands said it would give back a major fossil collection to Indonesia, granting its former colony's request to recover historical artefacts, including bones of the "Java ...