The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

The stencil, which had remained largely unnoticed amidst more recent paintings of animals and figures, is now the oldest artwork ever discovered. In fact, it is so old that it offers a rare glimpse ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art. Scientists have identified ...

Deep inside a cave system in Europe, a 60,000‑year‑old assemblage of human remains and artifacts has forced researchers to ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

An international research team reports the analysis of new hominin fossils from the site of Thomas Quarry I (Casablanca, Morocco). The fossils are very securely dated to 773,000 +/- 4,000 years ago, ...

Surprising fossil finds in a Moroccan quarry reveal 773,000-year-old hominin specimens that are close to the ancestor of modern humans. Read the paper: Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo ...

“Experts have long debated the date that humans arrived in Australia,” said LiveScience. Now a study using DNA from both ancient and modern Aboriginal people across Oceania may have finally “settled ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient human relative who lived alongside the species of the famous Lucy, scientists ...

Pronghorn move in one of the migration routes that bisects the Northern Sagebrush Steppe in Montana and Canada. (Paul Jones/Alberta Conservation Association Photo) In 2004, a female pronghorn made the ...

New discoveries in the Arabian Peninsula and Levant show that Homo sapiens began leaving Africa far earlier than the traditional 60,000-year timeline. Stone tools and skeletal evidence reveal repeated ...

Neanderthals may have never truly gone extinct, according to new research – at least not in the genetic sense. A new mathematical model has explored a fascinating scenario in which Neanderthals ...