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

A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint in the Americas. The discovery suggests that humans may have reached South ...

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

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 ...

On a dry lakebed in southern New Mexico, a set of ghostly footprints has forced archaeologists to redraw the map of the first Americans. These tracks, pressed into mud by teenagers, children, and ...

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 ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

(via SciShow) In 2002, a research team discovered one of the oldest human ancestors ever, called Sahelanthropus. For over twenty years, most people thought that all they found was a skull. But a few ...

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, ...

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 ...