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

This cave was probably a death trap. Nearly 800,000 years ago, carnivores dragged prey into a hollow carved into coastal rock ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of ...

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution.

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

For more than 70 years, what were thought to be mammoth fossils were tucked away in the archives of the University of Alaska ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Scientists have uncovered a treasure trove of fossils buried under Arctic mud for about 250 million years. These remains, ...

In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.