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.

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.

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

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

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

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

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

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 ...

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