A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

For many people, discomfort during a medical injection or a long tattoo session feels especially intense. According to new ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

A nearly-complete adult jawbone, a partial adult jawbone, the jawbone of a child, a vertebrae and some teeth were discovered.

This artist rendering shows hands of early human ancestors, called Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, found in South Africa. The left images show photos of the bones, and the right images show ...

But they add one caveat. Someday, they say, the researchers must teach them how to get history from the ground. The quest for fossils of human ancestors began in earnest after Charles Darwin proposed ...