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

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

An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the ...

This cave was probably a death trap. Nearly 800,000 years ago, carnivores dragged prey into a hollow carved into coastal rock near what is now Casablanca, Morocco. Hyenas regularly gnawed bones there.

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

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a common ancestor of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans ...

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

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 ...

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