New research that decoded the evolution of mosquitoes’ feeding habits from DNA could shed light on the murky timeline of prehistoric human ancestors.

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

Imagine uncovering a piece of history that's been buried for millions of years– something that connects us to our distant ancestors and sheds light on where we all began. Fossils are like time ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

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 ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A precisely dated Moroccan cave sequence places hominin jaws and teeth at 773,000 years old, near a key split in our lineage.

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into Australopithecus and early human evolution in Africa.

Walking on two legs has long been considered a milestone in human evolution and one of our most defining characteristics.

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 ...

A set of ancient human fossils found on Morocco’s Atlantic coast now sits on one of the tightest timelines in African prehistory. The remains come from Thomas Quarry I, and a new analysis pins them to ...