Peking Man Skull Fragment
A piece of the missing Homo erectus fossils may have been taken by a U.S. Marine during the chaotic 1941 attempt to ship them from Beijing. The fragment, either jaw or cranial, disappeared as Japanese forces closed in. Museums and black-market collectors would fight fiercely for such a scientifically significant item. Its reappearance would literally rewrite human evolutionary history and could fetch millions on either legal or black markets.
