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

A trio of jawbones, a leg bone, and a handful of vertebrae and teeth found in Morocco may represent one of the last common ...

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

The legendary “Little Foot” fossil may be an entirely new human ancestor. An international team of scientists led by ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The timing and location of our species’ emergence remain unclear for lack of evidence but a new discovery in Morocco brings ...

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone ...

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

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

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