The Peking Man fossils vanished in 1941 and are still missing
The Peking Man fossils — the Homo erectus skullcaps and bones from Zhoukoudian cave that anchored the theory that humans evolved in Asia — disappeared in December 1941 and haven’t been seen since.
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