An international research team has announced the most complete fossil yet of Homo habilis (aka 'the handy man') – one of the earliest known members of our genus. The 2-million-year-old partial ...

A fossilized human footprint found in southern Chile has been dated to 15,600 years ago, making it the oldest known footprint in the Americas. The discovery suggests that humans may have reached South ...

The fossil found in Misliya cave. Details of the teeth — their shapes and sizes relative to each other — helped scientists confirm that this belongs to Homo sapiens. Archaeologists in Israel have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavations have been underway since 1994 in the Hominid Cave at the Thomas Quarry I, south-west of the city of Casablanca in ...

When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he cracked open a story scientists thought they already knew. The cranium from ...

Two skulls found in a Grecian cave paint a surprising portrait of who lived there hundreds of thousands of years ago. One fragmentary skull has been dated to 210,000 years ago, and researchers believe ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

Chercheur en Préhistoire et conservateur principal des Monuments et Sites, Institut national des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine in Rabat Mohib Abderrahim is Researcher in Prehistory and ...