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

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution.

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

Could we - that is, Homo sapiens - and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on ...

Fossils discovered in a quarry cave in Morocco and dated to roughly 773,000 years ago are offering scientists a rare glimpse into one of the least understood periods of human evolution, when the ...

Accra, Jan. 8, GNA – Human fossils discovered in a cave at the Thomas I quarry near Casablanca have provided new insights into a critical phase of human evolution dating back about 773,000 years, ...

New research shows gut bacteria can directly influence how the brain develops and functions. When scientists transferred ...

Modern humans did not evolve from monkeys or any other animal that lives today. Humans continue to evolve but the traits we pass down aren't always for the species' betterment. "Survival of the ...