Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A handful of fossils (including this mandible) found in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, belong to a previously unknown ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An international research team has identified the earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens traits. The skeleton, ...

Jebel Irhoud in Morocco became the focus of a major reassessment of human origins after early excavations uncovered skulls and a child’s mandible alongside Middle Stone Age tools, charcoal, and ...

The discovery and dating of the Jebel Irhoud fossils are used to explain why Morocco holds the oldest known Homo sapiens ...

Ancient bones reveal that early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals didn’t just coexist. For years, scientists argued about whether Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthal groups in Europe. The Oase fossils ...

Scientists study physical evidence such as cave art, hand-crafted tools, and skull structures to infer cognitive and speech capabilities ...

Plants have been part of our diet as long as meat has, with new evidence showing that Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens and even earlier Homo hominins were using and processing starches, grass seeds, ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery in Morocco obliterates two decades of scientific consensus that our forefathers emerged in East Africa about 200,000 years ago, according to two studies published in ...

Unretouched triangular microlithic projectile points have been identified from their impact traces in the oldest occupation layers of the Obi-Rakhmat site in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 years ago.