RABAT, January 8. /TASS/. Fossilized bone fragments of hominids who might be a common ancestor of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals have been unearthed in Morocco.

Between roughly 600,000 and one million years ago, Africa’s fossil record goes strangely quiet. Genetic evidence suggests ...

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

New fossils unearthed in Morocco could help solve the mystery of how Homo sapiens diverged from other ancient humans like ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Look in the mirror and the feature that quietly sets you apart from every other species is not your eyes or your opposable ...

An international team of scientists, including the University of Wollongong (UOW), has found compelling evidence that a ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

When studying how fossil hominids moved, researchers usually analyze the morphology of bones—which is crucial for understanding the evolution of bipedalism—focusing mainly on muscle insertion sites.