A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

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 ...

Deep cave layers on Sulawesi preserve tools, bones, and art that may show modern humans overlapping with earlier hominins.

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

The timing and location of our species’ emergence remain unclear for lack of evidence but a new discovery in Morocco brings us closer to filling the knowledge gap. View on euronews ...

A groundbreaking discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi reveals that early hominins crossed treacherous seas over a million years ago, leaving behind stone tools that reshape our understanding ...

UNLV anthropology professor Brian Villmoare (right, in blue shirt) and colleagues screening at the Ledi-Geraru research site in 2018. The discovery of new fossils and a new species of ancient ancestor ...

The fossilized lower jawbones of two adults and a toddler, as well as teeth, a thigh bone, and some vertebrae, were unearthed in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

A team of 20 scientists from laboratories and institutions around the world, including in South Africa and Australia, established the age of the fossils which suggests that Homo naledi may well have ...

Fossils of Homo habilis juveniles show evidence they were attacked by crocodiles and eaten by large carnivores, revealing the ...