An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old partial ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A handful of fossils (including this mandible) found in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, belong to a previously unknown ancient ...

Two years ago, researchers reported on microbial activity dating back 3.7 billion years, a claim made possible by what were ...

In the early 2000s, researchers uncovered primate bones that were approximately seven million years old in Chad’s Djurab desert. Since then, the fossils, which belonged to the extinct species ...

The fossil found in Misliya cave. Details of the teeth — their shapes and sizes relative to each other — helped scientists confirm that this belongs to Homo sapiens. Archaeologists in Israel have ...

Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand's Evolutionary Studies Institute and the South African Centre for Excellence in PalaeoSciences today ...

A big difference between humans and other apes is the ability to stride easily around on two feet, with our bodies vertical. Now, a new analysis of some fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal ...