When researchers digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.6-million-year to 1.5-million-year-old hominin from Ethiopia, the result wasn't the familiar look of early Homo erectus. Instead, the fossil ...

A fossil found in northern Egypt is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about our origins. Named __Masripithecus ...

A fossil ape discovered in northern Egypt is reshaping the story of human evolution. The species, Masripithecus, lived about 17 to 18 million years ago and may sit very close to the ancestor of all ...

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 ...

The theory that East Africa is the most likely birthplace for human beings has persisted over many years. A new find, however ...

Ancient bones discovered in a cave in Casablanca, Morocco, could fill in some of the blanks about human evolution. The cave, known as Grotte à Hominidés, contains assemblages of jawbones, teeth, and ...

Early modern human (left) and Neanderthal. Credit: Artistic illustration: Gleiver Prieto; Copyright: K. Harvati Many people living today have a small component of ...

“For over a hundred years, it was hypothesized that our ancestors lived in grassland savannahs and that this major ecosystem change drove human evolution, including the origins of bipedalism and ...

Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On April 12 at the annual meeting of the ...

While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...