A series of 773,000-year-old human remains in Morocco may represent a population of hominins that lived just as our own ...

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

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

The fragmentary facial bones belong to Homo affinis erectus, an esoteric offshoot of our family tree that inhabited Spain more than one million years ago. Reading time 4 minutes Most of a human face ...

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

The analysis of dental remains from Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia has important implications regarding the balance and ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, according to scientists.

Virtual reassembly of teeth and fossil bone fragments reveals a beautifully preserved face of a 1.5-million-year-old human ancestor—the first complete Early Pleistocene hominin cranium from the Horn ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.