Two armed robbers raided a petrol station in East Sussex, prompting a police appeal for information. The men, each carrying a knife, entered the Piltdown Service Station on the A272 at 2000 BST on ...

A strange skull unearthed in rural Sussex fooled the scientific world for decades before the truth finally surfaced. Show more A strange skull unearthed in rural Sussex fooled the scientific world for ...

Eoanthropus dawsoni, or the Piltdown Man, never really existed. Wikimedia/Wellcome Images, CC BY In 1912 it was announced that some remains of “the earliest Englishman” had been found in a gravel pit.

A depiction of scientists examining the Piltdown skull in 1913. Dawson stands in the back, second from the right. John Cooke Wikimedia Commons When Piltdown Man was unveiled before a meeting of London ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—A multidisciplinary team of English researchers has conducted an analysis of the Piltdown specimens, a collection of forged fossils supposedly representing a human ancestor that were ...

The men, each carrying a knife, entered the Piltdown Service Station on the A272 at 2000 BST on Saturday. The robbers threatened the lone staff member before running away with £200 from the till and a ...