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

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

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

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

Another twist has been added to the puzzling mix that is early human ancestry with evidence that one of the most complete pre-human fossil skeletons we have found doesn’t belong to any recognized ...

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

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

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 ...

For anthropologists, there has long been a major mystery. Fossils from between 600,000 and 1 million years ago, when human ...

In 2009, scientists unearthed fossilized fragments of a 3.4-million-year-old foot in what’s now Ethiopia. They were found roughly 20 miles from where the famous Lucy skeleton was discovered in 1974.