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 ...

Megafauna extinction remains a mystery. New isotope analysis of mammoth teeth reveals both island & mainland populations ate ...

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

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

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

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

New fossils unearthed in Morocco could help solve the mystery of how Homo sapiens diverged from other ancient humans like ...

An international research team reports the analysis of new hominin fossils from the site of Thomas Quarry I (Casablanca, ...

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

New Jersey is home to not one, but two, of the best new museums in the United States, according to the USA TODAY 10BEST ...

Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.