Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

A fossilized foot found in the dusty sediments of northern Ethiopia has reopened one of paleoanthropology’s most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire ...

Scientists analyzing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes and traces of bone, ...

© Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig Who came before us? This question has always intrigued scientists. Fossils recently unearthed in Morocco could help us solve this enigma. A discovery in Morocco The 21 ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Find the fossil sites' interactive display, Maropeng exhibition, Cradle of Humankind. flowcomm, CC BY South Africa has one of the ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

A peculiar 37-million-year-old snake fossil, Paradoxophidion richardoweni, unearthed in England, is rewriting evolutionary ...

(CNN) — Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a ...