Fossils recovered from a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, may sit near the very root of the human family tree, according to ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and determined they were all female.

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco's Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them to ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a species different from that of the famous fossil Lucy providing further proof ...

Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago. All this time we were aware that there might be more, even older ...

Until now, the earliest known instance of human interest in ichthyosaurs was in 1699, but a peculiar discovery pushes that ...