At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Researchers have discovered fossil remains in Morocco that may represent one of the earliest stages of the human lineage, dating back 773,000 years ago. The findings, published today in the Nature ...

A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

Human fossils uncovered in a cave at the Thomas I quarry near Casablanca are offering fresh insight into a critical phase of human evolution dating back about 773,000 years.

The newly described specimen is a partial left mandible plus a molar crown, dated to about 2.6 million years ago using multiple methods, making it one of the oldest Paranthropus fossils known. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genetic information from the "Dragon Man" skull has linked the fossil, found in China, to the Denisovans. - Hebei GEO University ...