Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

The Dinosaur National Monument, which is located on the border between Colorado and Utah, was last excavated in 1924.

The 2-million-year-old partial skeleton may even represent the oldest example of H. habilis discovered so far. It includes a ...

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

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

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

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

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

Scientists have uncovered 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that hint at a mysterious, extinct marine animal equipped with ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...