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

The discovery of a new fossil has once again turned our understanding of human evolution on its head. This monumental find suggests that hominins may have ventured out of Africa much earlier than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

Geneticists have uncovered a faint but persistent signal in modern DNA that points to a vanished branch of humanity, a “ghost ...

For a long time, scientists have puzzled over the origins of the human species. It is unclear from which common ancestor modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans all descend. According to earlier ...