The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

It's considered one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ...

The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae dating back to 773,000 years ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...