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

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

This cave was probably a death trap. Nearly 800,000 years ago, carnivores dragged prey into a hollow carved into coastal rock ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

A group of anthropologists’ new analysis offers powerful evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis—a species discovered ...

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

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

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before vanishing forever.

A new fossil analysis supports the idea a human ancestor was walking upright far earlier than previously thought.

A recent study has suggested that Sahelanthropus tchadensis, an ape-like species that lived in Africa seven million years ago ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

Scientists find genetic mutation, millions of years ago. Oct. 12, 2011 — -- About three million years ago human predecessors embarked on a new course that would forever alter the evolution of our ...